Contingency Quotes - Page 3

• From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Frustrated, Acting, Events

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.47, NavPress

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• Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

  McGeorge Bundy

  Differences, President, Johnson

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• There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher rates of reproduction for people capable of solving scientific problems or creating new scientific ideas. So if, in fact, the science-forming capacities evolved for other reasons, it would not be too surprising if those particular structures that have developed proved to be rather special in their nature, reflecting the contingencies of their evolution or the working of physical law.

  Noam Chomsky

  Derecho, Ideas, Crear

  Fuente: chomsky.info

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• The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Democracy, Operations

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices for detecting their approach and registering their nature, for warding off what is unfavorable or at least for protecting ourselves from its full impact.

  Dale Jamieson

  Impact, Essence, Culture

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Ideas, Machines

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random strangers any given day - who's in these streets that day?

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mean, Facts, Stranger

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Una vez que el dólar empiece a hundirse bajo el peso de todo este nuevo gasto deficitario, la acumulación de pasivos contingentes y la socialización de nuestra economía, los precios de las materias primas y los tipos de interés se dispararán.

  Peter Schiff

  Precios de las materias primas, peso, dólares

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• Construiremos un Cuerpo de Marines basado en 36 batallones, que según la Heritage Foundation es el mínimo necesario para hacer frente a grandes contingencias. Ahora mismo sólo tenemos 23.

  Donald Trump

  Marine, Foundation, Heritage

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Kripke dice que los fisicalistas como yo no podemos explicar la "aparente contingencia" de las identidades mente-cerebro. Sostiene que, si yo realmente creyera que los dolores son fibras C, entonces ya no debería tener espacio para pensar que "ellos" podrían separarse. Su argumento es que, puesto que los dolores no se identifican a través de una descripción contingente, sino en términos de cómo se sienten, no tengo una buena forma de construir un mundo posible, por así decirlo, en el que las fibras C estén presentes y los dolores ausentes.

  David Papineau

  Dolor, Cerebro, Mente

  "Físico". Entrevista con Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. 8 de abril de 2013.

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• Los trenes inducen una ansiedad terrible. Son la imagen de la posibilidad de un fracaso total e irrevocable. También son sucios, destartalados, repletos de extraños, una lección objetiva de la sucia contingencia de la vida: el compañero de viaje parlanchín, la posibilidad de que haya niños.

  Iris Murdoch

  Niños, Sucio, Ansiedad

  Iris Murdoch (2003). "The Black Prince", p.69, Penguin

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• ¿qué buscas? No hay Verdad. Sólo hay acción, acción que obedece a un millón de impulsos diferentes, acción efímera, acción sometida a todas las contingencias y contradicciones posibles e imaginables, Vida. La vida es crimen, robo, celos, hambre, mentiras, asco, estupidez, enfermedad, erupciones volcánicas, terremotos, montones de cadáveres... ¿qué puedes hacer al respecto, mi pobre amigo?

  Blaise Cendrars

  Celos, Mentira, Volcanes

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• Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

  Tomás de Aquino

  Men, Understanding, Doe

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• You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

  Ian Fleming

  Nuts, America, Together

  Ian Fleming (2012). “For Your Eyes Only”, Vintage Digital

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• La vanidad de la existencia se revela en toda la forma que asume la existencia: en la infinitud del tiempo y del espacio contrastada con la finitud del individuo en ambos; en el presente fugaz como única forma en que existe la actualidad; en la contingencia y relatividad de todas las cosas; en el continuo devenir sin ser; en el continuo deseo sin satisfacción; en la continua frustración del esfuerzo en que consiste la vida. . . El tiempo es aquello en virtud de lo cual todo se convierte en nada en nuestras manos y pierde todo valor real.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Frustration, Vanity

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• Hay tantas cosas que no puedo creer. Que la gente se merece lo que le pasa, tanto lo malo como lo bueno. Que un día viviré en un mundo en el que se juzga a la gente por lo que hace en lugar de por lo que es. Que los finales felices no tienen imprevistos y condiciones.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, People, One Day

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Becoming, Ends, Ifs

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Plans, Contingency Plans

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• Por lo tanto, independientemente de cómo se desarrolle el mundo en los próximos siglos, al menos una gran parte de los lectores no se sorprenderá demasiado de nada. Lo habrán vivido todo antes en forma de ficción, y no estarán demasiado paralizados por el asombro como para tratar de hacer frente a las contingencias que vayan surgiendo.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Clase, Intento, Mundo

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• In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Air, Space, Judging

  "A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann". Book by Matthias Beier, 2004.

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• Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

  Wesley Morris

  Poor Decisions, Luck, Horror

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• It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Government, People, Generations

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Littles, Wheels

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• 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 contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Light, Evolution

  "Evolution as a Process". Book edited by J. S. Huxley, A. C. Hardy and E. B. Ford, 1954.

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• Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Luck, Fool, Forget

  Phyllis Bottome (1954). “The Secret Stair”

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