Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation. — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said,… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars,… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct,… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us.… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident -… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you're Facebook stalking someone and then you accidentally like their status from 2 years ago. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shot 'Fruitvale Station' on super-16, and then I shot a movie called 'The Harvest' on 35mm, and then I shot 'Little… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened. — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One of those professional drivers hit one of those blockade barriers. It was the first car accident I have ever been in,… — Matt Hasselbeck Copy Share Image
Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents… — Peter Beard Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
