Accidental Quotes

198 quotes by 163 authors

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change… — Michelle Bachelet
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way… — Mayim Bialik
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter… — William Kingdon Clifford
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long… — Srully Blotnick
You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. — Rajneesh
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result. — Ambrose Bierce
Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'… — Alistair Cooke
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would… — Jonathan Swift
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… — Bertrand Russell
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and… — Thomas Jefferson
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think… — Stephen Hawking
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all… — Rajneesh
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do… — Woody Harrelson
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where… — Robert Adams
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is never accidental. — Jack Dorsey
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment,… — Susan Hill
Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself… — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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