That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
Believing in yourself and being willing to do anything, to walk through the fire, to do what it is that you want… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Life is not a series of meaningless accidents. When things are bound to happen, they surely will. You are not an accident… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Nature’s accidents are the universe’s way of throwing chance into a system which would die of too much orderliness. Hurricanes, droughts, floods,… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in… — Shelley Berkley Copy Share Image
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to view the world as if Tom Cruise is constantly walking in front of me on his way across… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. “How could you want one?” My Secret Agent Lover Man said. “There are way… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
In the very near future, and I stress this important point, it will no longer be war that is the continuation of… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
Second day of dating this guy and I've already screwed up.I tried to kiss him back and missed. Second try came along… — Heather McCowen Copy Share Image
“Later he decided the specifics were not important, that the true lesson of accidents is not the how or the why, but… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“But second, this truth removes general fear and anxiety when life “goes wrong.” We know it hasn’t gone wrong at all! If… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
