Accidents Quote by Bruce Sterling Download Open image “In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .” — Bruce Sterling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Fall Huge Innocent Party
One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Actually, not because of anyone's intention but just because of some sociological and some other things that have happened over 25, 30 years, the… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
If we live in a society that is stuck in victimhood, we will have lots of victims. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“You give a guy a license to steal, you've got to expect him to use it.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national character wasn't suited for global police duties. It never had been. Tidy and meticulous people such as the Swiss… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
“But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
“If America suffers from drugs, perhaps you should ask what America is lacking, [“What an asshole,”] Eric King commented suddenly. They ignored him.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they'll… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with… — Francine Rivers Copy Share
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image