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
I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also… — David Moranis Copy Share Image
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Casablanca is back on the big screen in a new print and looks and sounds better as time goes by. It is… — Philip French Copy Share Image
There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her,… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
When you go to Africa and you see people who are just like you and me - this is always my starting… — Michael Elliott Copy Share Image
I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and… — Lilli Palmer Copy Share Image
It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I… — Brooke Burns Copy Share Image
There are the people who really, really enjoy being celebrities, and then there are the people who came by it maybe by… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“Person after person after person... they all converge at one moment, irrevocably changing the course of a thousand more live. As it… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that… — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Yeah, I've mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay . I don't hate them, I don't wish they… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
