Accidental Quotes

198 Accidental quotes by 162 unique authors

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 rude—" 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
It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog,… — Nancy Willard
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in… — Marisha Pessl
Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on… — Emily Dickinson
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining… — Kij Johnson
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of… — Arthur C. Clarke
Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's… — Douglas Coupland
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges
A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how… — Sarah Dessen
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are… — Wallace Stegner

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