All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America. — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
That sad moment when someones about to get married then on the day before their wedding one of them was terribly hurt… — Joanne Lobedica Copy Share Image
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad… — Lauren Cohan Copy Share Image
“I was a victim of a series of accidents,” he said. He shrugged. “As are we all,” he said.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I've always said that, growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. "You have a guardian angel." "I don't believe in angels," I told… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to… — Robert Warren Copy Share Image
Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no,… — Timothy Olyphant 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
There's a cave, we go inside of ourselves because we want to know more, and we turn this one corner and we… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent. — Li Yizhong Copy Share Image
You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want. — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident. — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
Car accidents usually result from one person being in too great a hurry and the other not being in a hurry at… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident. — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
