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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos. -- Spalding Gray
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. -- Ernst Mayr
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. -- W. Clement Stone
Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq. -- Ron Lewis
The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers. -- Chris Hardwick
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. -- Charles Caleb Colton
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. -- Teresa de Lauretis
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. -- James Callaghan
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. -- Charles Baudelaire
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. -- Charles Baudelaire
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. -- Baruch Spinoza
What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence. -- Franz Wright
I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period. -- Eric Braeden
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. -- Hans Hofmann
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. -- Walter Lippmann
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. -- Herbert Simon
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. -- Gottfried Leibniz
A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense. -- Eric Maskin
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. -- Charles Baudelaire
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. -- Robert Creeley
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities. -- William Griffith Wilson
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. -- Richard Adams
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent. -- William A. Dembski
We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities. -- Georgi Parvanov
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims. -- Judith Butler
Now, in this U.N. stuff, the commander, although he has troops, they don't really belong to him. They're loaned by the country to the U.N. to be used, but each of these countries provide a contingent commander, a senior guy who communicates directly back to his capital. -- Romeo Dallaire
friendship was always contingent. -- Margaret Atwood
The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance. -- Benny Hinn
Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits -- Phil Collins
The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score. -- Jean Chatzky
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional -- Trinh T. Minh-ha
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent -- Norbert Wiener
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. -- Bob Hope
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet. -- George Will
The right to life of a woman should not be contingent on her obedience of social norms and traditions."A.Prasad(Venkat Seminar )" -- Ashoka Prasad
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. -- John Charles Polanyi
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible. -- Elizabeth Goudge
The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. -- Mother Teresa
Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs. -- Max Anders
I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well. -- Girl Talk
Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. -- Dalai Lama
Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it springs. -- Stephen Batchelor
Godâ??s eternal blessings are contingent upon our obedience and adherence to the word of the Lord that is revealed to us through His holy prophets -- L. Tom Perry
Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished. -- Allen Wheelis
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population. -- Pat Oliphant
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. -- H. A. L. Fisher
Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance -- Farouk of Egypt
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent. -- Isabel Allende
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards. -- Brian Eno
A lot of these "reality shows" do a lot of producing scenes and producing things and drama and all that but we did the deal contingent that we wouldn't do that. -- Mike Stud
The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment. -- Carl Guardino
I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power. -- Larry Gelbart
It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history. -- Ralph Nader
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed. -- Thomas Merton
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life. -- Demetria McKinney
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To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task. -- Gayle Pemberton
Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions. -- Emile M. Cioran
When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms. -- Sergei Lavrov

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