Contingent Quotes

70 Contingent quotes by 63 unique authors

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow.… — Jorge Luis Borges
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial.… — Dan Barker
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that… — Paul Auster
friendship was always contingent. — Margaret Atwood
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line… — James W. Loewen
If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must… — David Remnick
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are… — Isabel Allende
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women,… — Edward Said
Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history… — Stephen Jay Gould
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the… — Judith Butler
We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy,… — Georgi Parvanov
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those… — Gottfried Leibniz
Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq. — Ron Lewis
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. — Charles Baudelaire
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. — Stephen Jay Gould
You dont need anyones affection or approval in order to be good enough. When someone rejects or abandons or judges you, it isnt actually about… — Daniell Koepke
A love of shoes -- like skirts and just about everything else -- is not contingent on gender. Other pearls of wisdom from kids: Be… — Unknown Author
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of… — Robert Creeley
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. — John Charles Polanyi
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a… — William Griffith Wilson

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