It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.
It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences
Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.
I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events necessary in order to have the revealed truth about the way one produces a given effect on a given instrument.
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.
I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.
My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
Things always happen in series.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
