Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
“Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked. 'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us… — L. Ashley Straker Copy Share Image
The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“I was either still dreaming or I had entered an alternate reality where I was a flippin' insane person. I doubted I… — P. S. Martinez Copy Share Image
There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities and the socialization… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried… — Hugh Massingberd Copy Share Image
The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the… — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
“The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“An egg is a chemical process, but it is not a mere chemical process. It is one that is going places—even when,… — John Randall Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I never built that contingency plan. Through the seemingly impossible Loudcloud series C and IPO processes, I learned one important lesson: Startup… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“To protect your interests in your transactions when making an offer you’ll often use at least one—and maybe several—contingencies.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . . — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The universe made no promises. It owes you nothing. It did not invite you to be born. It made no commitments that… — Tobias M. Kohl Copy Share Image
“Contingency cannot be a contingent phenomenon. All unforeseen circumstances have unknown causes.” — Elmar Hussein Copy Share Image
“Hope may inspire and inveigle us, but we cannot just live on hope. Certainly, love can be hope, but it is merely… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice;… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image