in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Although beneficial accidents are rare, we can prepare for what they unveil by honing our own skills and learning from others experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
“As many as one-third of all stair accidents occur on the first or last step, and two-thirds occur on the first or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them... — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies? — David A. Noebel Copy Share Image
When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be… — Bob McKenzie Copy Share Image
And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes,… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind. — Matthew Bonifacio Copy Share Image
I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to… — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents. — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident. — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine. — Christian Horner Copy Share Image
... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image