Accidental Quotes

198 Accidental quotes by 162 unique authors

It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think… — Eve Ensler
They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but… — Maureen Johnson
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like… — Anton Chekhov
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo
I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body. — Anna Akhmatova
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke. — Maureen Johnson
If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme,… — Jefferson Bass
You’re touching me,” I chided him. He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting every sensitive point I hadn’t even known I had. “No,… — Ilona Andrews
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even… — Paul Auster
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents… — Paolo Giordano
The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what… — Milan Kundera
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that… — Soren Kierkegaard
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works. — Gayle Forman
I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental. — Leonardo da Vinci
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty… — Abraham Lincoln
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or… — Leo Rosten
The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain… — Stephen Jay Gould
We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any… — Stephen Jay Gould
The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky… — Honor Harger
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me… — Jacqueline Novogratz
The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it… — Ellen DeGeneres
Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in… — Don Lemon
Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. — Carl Levin
As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial… — Anthony Ashley Cooper

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