Contingency Quotes

60 quotes by 56 authors

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of… — Samuel Johnson
We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace. — Theodore C. Sorensen
A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and… — Harry Markowitz
McEwan's Atonementâ€¦truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the pastâ€¦. The middle section of… — Noah Richler
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is… — Holmes Rolston III
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me… — Cees Nooteboom
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films. — Wesley Morris
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make… — Samuel Eliot Morison
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments… — Italo Calvino
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person… — Stephen Batchelor
When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes all elements of… — Barack Obama
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against… — Alexander Hamilton
[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating… — James Madison
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am… — Francisco Franco
You canâ€™t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that itâ€™ll be okay anyway. — Rick Riordan
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and… — Jonathan Raban
The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description,… — John Stuart Mill
Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself… — Hugh Massingberd
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which… — Ronald Fisher

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