I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image
Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I really feel that if it wasnt for the accident, Id still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters.… — Roberto Duran Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain… — John Berger Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime, but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. Not by accident, the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the… — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“He's bound to have done something ,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician's view of crime and punishment. If… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope… — Fritz Scholder Copy Share Image
You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been… — Wayne Hale Copy Share Image
Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
And thus thou canst remark that every act At bottom exists not of itself, nor is As body is, nor has like… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I… — Craig Charles Copy Share Image
I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy.… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time." "That accident was not my fault." "You were… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
