Accident Quotes

1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the… — Richard Dawkins
It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences — Gianfranco Fini
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the… — Michael Ondaatje
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak… — Leo Baekeland
We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much… — Price Pritchett
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for… — Timothy Leary
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery… — Samuel Johnson
Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they… — Samuel Johnson
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. — Nick Bantock
Everything good that happened to me happened by accident. — Jack Benny
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident. — Raphael Soyer
Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment. — Ralph Steadman
Accident is veiled necessity. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem. — Alexander Fleming
Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own… — Mary Antin
It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of… — Laurent Jalabert
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related. — Francois Mauriac
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely. — Joe E. Lewis
You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have… — Rick Warren
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out… — Andrew Sullivan
Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So… — Herbert Spencer
Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then… — Dan Miller
A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their… — Mac Anderson
To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference. — Maya Angelou

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