Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents… — Peter Beard Copy Share Image
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
I met this girl who had a huge scar on her leg from a car accident. She was talking about how, after… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
You are loved. You are valuable. You are crafted with beauty and purpose. I treasure you and this world needs you. There… — Curt Mega Copy Share Image
When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents,… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of… — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Yogi Bear - there's everything before Yogi Bear and there's everything after Yogi Bear. Like a major car accident, or the birth… — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
“Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away… — Lauren Henderson Copy Share Image
But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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