Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained… — John Berger Copy Share Image
How frail you are. I don’t want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian) I’m not as frail as I appear. I know… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has… — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the… — Casey Stoner Copy Share Image
Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We try to reduce the danger to a minimum, of course. And then we prepare for accidents with alternate plans. For instance,… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just… — Vic Morrow Copy Share Image
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
I fell into this business by accident. It wasn't something I ever aspired to be: an Actress . It just happened. It… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image