There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident? — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint:… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents. — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I… — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I… — William James Copy Share Image
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“But I'll tell you one thing, Dolores: bawling your eyes out with your apron over your head won't save your daughter's maidenhead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
“I thought that life was truly an accident among accidents in the universe.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Of all the things in life that could frighten you, you worry about my driving? — Megan Marie Copy Share Image
