You know I started an orphanage so totally by accident. A lady came to me and asked me if I would, I… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you… — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn… — Ingrid Law Copy Share Image
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I'm not going to try and change your mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope… — Fritz Scholder Copy Share Image
If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I really feel that if it wasnt for the accident, Id still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters.… — Roberto Duran Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been… — Wayne Hale Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
And thus thou canst remark that every act At bottom exists not of itself, nor is As body is, nor has like… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
