Contingent Quotes

70 Contingent quotes by 63 unique authors

Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on… — Michael Sandel
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent… — Greg Rucka
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man… — Hosea Ballou
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. — Teresa de Lauretis
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in… — Andrea Dworkin
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo,… — Georg Cantor
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of… — Pat Oliphant
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus… — William A. Dembski
The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers. — Chris Hardwick
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. — George Will
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and… — Brian Eno
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really… — Taylor Hanson
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This… — Hans Hofmann
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent… — Walter Lippmann
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how… — Herbert Simon
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine… — Baruch Spinoza
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. — W. Clement Stone
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so… — John O'Donohue
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does… — J M Coetzee
Nick was dressed in jeans, a dark green sweater, and bomber jacket–the perfect image of a rich college student. Talon looked like a biker who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful,… — Donald Barthelme

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