Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor. — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works,… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Car accidents usually result from one person being in too great a hurry and the other not being in a hurry at… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident. — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want. — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history… — Alan S. Kesselheim Copy Share Image
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no,… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident -… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent. — Li Yizhong Copy Share Image
I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad… — Lauren Cohan Copy Share Image
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
“I was a victim of a series of accidents,” he said. He shrugged. “As are we all,” he said.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That sad moment when someones about to get married then on the day before their wedding one of them was terribly hurt… — Joanne Lobedica Copy Share Image
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America. — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
