Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused. — Ernest Greenwood Copy Share Image
How the fuck can you accidentally cheat on your girlfriend? Like, oops, I tripped and my clothes ripped off and I fell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Workplace accidents with people who are sleep deprived or people who work shifts and they don't get the right amount of sleep… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just… — Aline Brosh McKenna Copy Share Image
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As… — Mary Elizabeth Clark Copy Share Image
Samuel laughed out loud. "You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we… — John Edward Copy Share Image
Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the… — W Mitchell Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin… — Ascanio Sobrero Copy Share Image
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin. — David Milch Copy Share Image
There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
