Life is not a series of meaningless accidents. When things are bound to happen, they surely will. You are not an accident… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
You know I started an orphanage so totally by accident. A lady came to me and asked me if I would, I… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
If you do not have at least an eight-month emergency fund, and you think there's a probability you could loose your job… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz 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
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
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
When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn… — Ingrid Law Copy Share Image
I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
“Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you… — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Second day of dating this guy and I've already screwed up.I tried to kiss him back and missed. Second try came along… — Heather McCowen Copy Share Image
A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Later he decided the specifics were not important, that the true lesson of accidents is not the how or the why, but… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“But second, this truth removes general fear and anxiety when life “goes wrong.” We know it hasn’t gone wrong at all! If… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I… — Rick Allen Copy Share Image
Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image