Contingency Of Nature Quotes

#1. I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.

Neal Shusterman

#2. Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.

Lin Yutang

#3. That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

Hans Jonas

#4. My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#5. We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

Michael Shermer

#6. Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me? ... I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.

Polycarp

#7. I'm a vampire. I have secret powers".."Actually, your mom let me in" -Michael Glass

Rachel Caine

#8. There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#9. Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

Margaret Thatcher

#10. I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

John Hawkes

#11. As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

Kaoru Ishikawa

#12. Beauty
Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought
Is therapeutic.
If, after several
Applications, you do not find
Relief, consult your family physician

Robert Penn Warren

#13. Barrons breaks heads. Ryodan turns them inside out. Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up. He pushes buttons and rearranges things according to his own private, coolly sociopathic plan.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.

Mark Kingwell

#15. Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans.

Robert Gottlieb

#16. Our understanding is a faculty of concepts, i.e., a discursive understanding, for which it must of course be contingent what and how different might be the particular that can be given to it in nature and brought under its concepts.

Immanuel Kant

#17. It's not a model if it's full-size. It's a ice-breaker!

Michael Palin

#18. Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Nikki Sixx

#19. He kisses me like his life depends on it and I kiss him back in the same way because I think, right now, in this moment, mine does.

Megan Keith

#20. Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Camille Paglia

#21. God, however, is first glimpsed within nature's still greater powerlessness - its transitoriness and contingency and explanatory poverty.

David Bentley Hart