People say to me all the time that I threw some money into some guy's coffee cup [by accident, thinking they were… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one… — Howard Blum Copy Share Image
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“IT’S ONLY LIFE. WE ALL GET THROUGH IT. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Hanoi Rocks was our baby and we were the core and we started the band. All those years that went to waste… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“An accident you're in? It marks you on the outside, maybe. Scars your face or your skin-breaks bones,crushes skulls,leaves the body changed.… — Carol Lynch Williams Copy Share Image
There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I… — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would… — Glenn Cunningham Copy Share Image
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life,… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving -… — Victoria Justice Copy Share Image