Ontingency Quotes & Sayings

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould

What I read told me that the Mankindman was a strange creature which stand on to legs. It seems to be a man from both sides; maybe all sides are man! — Ahmad Amani

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. — Colin Baker

You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys. — Lizzy Caplan

What people need to do is conserve what they have, .. There is a supply out there; we just need to conserve it. Going up and loading up your tank is not going to do that much. It's just going to deplete the supply, and the problem will eventually catch up to you. — Mike Easley

The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory. — George Muller

He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounded him all the more cruelly since, being ignorant of his love, incapable, had they known of it, of taking any interest, or of doing more than smile at it as at some childish joke, or deplore it as an act of insanity, they made it appear to him in the aspect of a subjective state which existed for himself alone, whose reality there was nothing external to confirm; he suffered overwhelmingly, to the point at which even the sound of the instruments made him want to cry, from having to prolong his exile in this place to which Odette would never come, in which no one, nothing was aware of her existence, from which she was entirely absent. — Marcel Proust

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. — Mike Myers

We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance. — Duane Michals

God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God's grace - not earned by your works. — Jim George

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created. — Anders Hejlsberg

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali