More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
“I’ve had my fair share of accidents,” Gilbert replied. “I know my way around broken stuff.” — Adam Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident. — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing.” — Tobe Hanson 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
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
What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel,… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the… — Samuel Johnson 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
“Our God is sovereign. That means there's no such thing as luck. Anything that happens to you, good or bad, must pass… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
It wasn’t government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn’t government that gave us… — Paul Waldman Copy Share Image
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Adventures are funny things. Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events. But some adventures are… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make… — John Gruber Copy Share Image
Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences -… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody! — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I went to rent a car, and the guy goes, 'Do you want the extra insurance?' I said, 'Why...am I gonna get… — Robert Schimmel Copy Share Image
A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image