The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school.… — Manu Bennett Copy Share Image
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If you're injured in an automobile accident, and you sue the driver, you get much more for your injury than if you're… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are… — Rob Long Copy Share Image
If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits -… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
With 'Little Accidents', I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can… — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There are no accidents or coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity - because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Appreciate everything and everyone. Look upon every experience you've ever had, and everyone who's ever played any role in your life, as… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
I made my first film McLibel independently but only by accident. I tried to get a commission from all the standard TV… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
