Accident Quotes

1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he… — William Butler Yeats
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star:… — Clarence Day
There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!. — Lester Levenson
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but… — Frederick Lenz
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view -… — Jeremy Rifkin
I rode many bikes and motorcycles. My brother was in an accident when he was a kid and my mom forbade us to use motorcycles. — John Travolta
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain… — James Whistler
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe… — William Wordsworth
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it… — William James
He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention… — Samuel Johnson
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the… — Walter Pater
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and… — Walter Pater
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied… — Max Beerbohm
I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It… — Al Hirschfeld
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. — Frank Herbert
The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident . — Sidney Lumet
City diversity represents accident and chaos. — Jane Jacobs
In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident . — Bruce Sterling
I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident . — Harvey Penick
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end. — Jackson Pollock
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result -… — James Hillman

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