Accidental Quotes

198 quotes by 162 authors

Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were… — Christine Caine
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. — Vincent Van Gogh
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination. — Karen Lord
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn
As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect… — Kazuaki Tanahashi
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann
The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental. — Vincent Van Gogh
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to… — Harriet McBryde Johnson
Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but… — Vincent Van Gogh
The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and… — Tim Gunn
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic… — Erwin Chargaff
Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out… — Maggie Shipstead
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the… — Robert Southey
But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to… — Neil Postman
Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could… — Kim Gordon
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter… — Cesar Aira
Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental. ... — D. A. Fisher
You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury. — Philip K. Dick

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