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Tag Name "Accident" (714)

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Accident is veiled necessity.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.
Jennifer Morla
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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
T. S. Eliot
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Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
Mark Helprin
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accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
David Guterson
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Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.
Harold Percival
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A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
Alec Issigonis
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I had an accident. That seemes to happen a lot. It wasn't my fault. It never is. I just have bad luck. Or you're just trouble. You got a problem with that? No problem at all. Oh my God! Are you going to help or not?
Richelle Mead
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do
Pele
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I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
Annie Dillard
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I think life's too complex to be an accident.
Alexandra Adornetto
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See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
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Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
Pete Docter
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Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Now then, Pooh, said Christopher Robin, where's your boat? I ought to say, explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends. Depends on what? On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.
A. A. Milne
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Coach, Annabeth said, it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep. Besides, Percy said, you're starting to sound like Terminus. Hedge narrowed his eyes. Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll Terminus you, buddy!
Rick Riordan
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It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
Peter Ackroyd
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When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
A. J. Muste
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We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.
Rick Warren
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Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.
Peter Thomas
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No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.
Alice Hegan Rice
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Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
Abdul Kalam
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