Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue. — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of… — John Holmes Copy Share Image
And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
Don’t be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So… try not… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good,… — John Hench Copy Share Image
I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose,… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime, but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. Not by accident, the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents. — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident. — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
