All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it… — Naoto Kan Copy Share Image
Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get. — Moon Unit Zappa Copy Share Image
I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident. — Ben Hogan Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
“It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's… — Rinko Kawauchi Copy Share Image
The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really… — Marc Cherry Copy Share Image
I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became… — Simi Linton Copy Share Image
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack… — John Trevor Godfrey Copy Share Image
To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident. — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident. — Adam Young Copy Share Image
I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car. — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing… — Pele Copy Share Image
Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Accidents are no longer accidents at all. They are failures of risk management.” — Sidney Dekker Copy Share Image
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
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