To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
“Accidents are no longer accidents at all. They are failures of risk management.” — Sidney Dekker Copy Share Image
Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a… — Greg Plitt Copy Share Image
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I fell into this business by accident. It wasn't something I ever aspired to be: an Actress . It just happened. It… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just… — Vic Morrow Copy Share Image
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident. — Adam Young Copy Share Image
I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car. — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing… — Pele Copy Share Image
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Workplace accidents with people who are sleep deprived or people who work shifts and they don't get the right amount of sleep… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
How the fuck can you accidentally cheat on your girlfriend? Like, oops, I tripped and my clothes ripped off and I fell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused. — Ernest Greenwood Copy Share Image
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident . — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
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