I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think… — Shirley Booth Copy Share Image
The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish… — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we… — Michael York Copy Share Image
Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated,… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I've been in a bad accident on I-95, as well as my friend. Having this kind of organization is important so that… — Jeremy Miller Copy Share Image
I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really,… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach.… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
