Accidental Quotes

198 quotes by 162 authors

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our… — Joyce Carol Oates
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living… — Ivan Pavlov
I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that… — Unknown Author
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. — J. B. Priestley
All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are… — Arundhati Roy
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because,… — Bertrand Russell
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according… — Sharon Salzberg
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health. — David Suzuki
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. — Conrad Veidt
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. — Robert Anton Wilson
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime,… — Miranda July
This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. — Dag Hammarskjold
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty… — George Orwell
I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating… — Winston Groom
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so… — John O'Donohue
I don't mean to be rudeâ€”" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is… — Marcus Aurelius
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires… — Bertrand Russell

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