After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but… — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We try to reduce the danger to a minimum, of course. And then we prepare for accidents with alternate plans. For instance,… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained… — John Berger Copy Share Image
[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
How frail you are. I don’t want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian) I’m not as frail as I appear. I know… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
![“The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long…” quote by Gordon Allport](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/488/gordon-allport-29384_accidents_the-dog-in-pavlov-s-experiments-does-not_1383042.png)
![“You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet…” quote by Sonny Barger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/484/sonny-barger-21887_accidents_you-can-say-what-you-want-about-all-the_487014.jpg)
![“Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't…” quote by Audrey Hepburn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1b3/audrey-hepburn-1706_accidents_somebody-said-to-me-the-other-day-you-kn_1005458.jpg)
![“[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a gigantic accident and that they're all threatened.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d7f/rush-limbaugh-28_aberration_people-think-that-they-run-the-world-the_1681509.jpg)
