Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong… — William Shakespeare 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
Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to… — Robert Warren Copy Share Image
Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. "You have a guardian angel." "I don't believe in angels," I told… — Richelle Mead 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
Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine 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
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents,… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood?… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town.… — William Jackson Copy Share Image
I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right… — Boy George Copy Share Image
We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
