Contingency Quotes

Contingency Quote of the day

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

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.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

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

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

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

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

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

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?

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

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.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

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

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them beat you to a bloody pulp. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.

Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

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