Occurrence Quotes

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.