Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. Votes: 4
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. Votes: 4
Wole SoyinkaI look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel. Votes: 4
John FrankenheimerNo birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value. Votes: 4
Gary ZukavFame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Votes: 3
Mark TwainA christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident. Votes: 3
T. S. EliotWe are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth. Votes: 3
Venkatraman RamakrishnanCyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself. Votes: 3
Paul VirilioThe invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Votes: 3
James NaismithSuccess is an accident. Showing up, even if it's just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone. Votes: 3
Paul BudnitzIt was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences Votes: 3
Gianfranco FiniStrong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill. Votes: 3
Julie B. BeckProgress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity"¦It is a part of nature. Votes: 3
Herbert SpencerNot to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. Votes: 3
Irvin D. YalomI have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident. Votes: 3
Edie SedgwickJesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident. Votes: 3
Ben HoganBut now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love. Votes: 3
Emily GiffinThere is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate Votes: 3
Napoleon BonaparteWell, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth. Votes: 3
Wilford BrimleyA beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. Votes: 3
Louis NizerThere's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!. Votes: 3
Lester LevensonThere's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident Votes: 3
Josh SternSome of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident. Votes: 3
Desmond TutuDeath is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauIf you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement. Votes: 3
Abdul KalamEvery job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get. Votes: 3
Moon Unit ZappaMusic was sort of an accident for me. I love to do it. I can't imagine doing anything else. Votes: 3
Tristan PrettymanI only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! Votes: 3
Gwendoline ChristieIt was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident. Votes: 3
Sonny BonoSometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. Votes: 0
Eric RobertsGreatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported. Votes: 0
Mary McLeod BethuneThere is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident. Votes: 0
Paul VirilioFour specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment Votes: 0
David Lloyd GeorgeArtist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. Votes: 0
Don BlandingProjects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. Votes: 0
Dallas WillardThe sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build. Votes: 0
Gregory MaguireMore things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. Votes: 0
Jeff GreenfieldAn accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceMichael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him Votes: 0
Jeff ZuckerMichael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him. Votes: 0
Jeff ZuckerEven though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you. Votes: 0
Nastassja KinskiMan's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident. Votes: 0
Friedrich Nietzscheaccident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. Votes: 0
David GutersonI don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. Votes: 0
Wole SoyinkaThe most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug. Votes: 0
Peter KayIn a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident . Votes: 0
Bruce SterlingThen I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film. Votes: 0
Mike FiggisThere is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related. Votes: 0
Francois MauriacIt's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. Votes: 0
Nick BantockBecause normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. Votes: 0
Martin Cruz SmithNo bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenAmores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident. Votes: 0
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituI find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. Votes: 0
Mal PeetTelevision exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television. Votes: 0
Paul VirilioClary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245- Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareI know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. Votes: 0
Richard AvedonI fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer. Votes: 0
Christopher AndersonSince my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people. Votes: 0
George C. WallaceAn unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident. Votes: 0
James Luther AdamsWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. Votes: 0
Anne CarsonYou didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God. Votes: 0
Joel OsteenDesign is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. Votes: 0
Robert L. PetersWithout history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. Votes: 0
Donald KaganFor any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. Votes: 0
Sidney LumetOne time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes. Votes: 0
Mitch HedbergMy parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. Votes: 0
Alan RickmanToo bad. Family members hit you by accident. Psychopathic whores tend to come back for more. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadI received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. Votes: 0
Gloria EstefanI have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. Votes: 0
Stephen De StaeblerThe more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident Votes: 0
Bill VaughanIt was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. Votes: 0
Max PlanckHowever, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident. Votes: 0
Mitch AlbomTo make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouHe that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. Votes: 0
Sally RideI just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. Votes: 0
Steven WrightI snorted heroin once by accident. It was amazing. But kids, don't snort heroin. It's too good. Votes: 0
Artie LangeJust start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. Votes: 0
Guy GarveyI don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. Votes: 0
Marilyn HackerWhen people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing. Votes: 0
Shane HarperMy father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident. Votes: 0
Jimmy CarrUltravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident. Votes: 0
Gary NumanArt doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. Votes: 0
Nicholas MeyerThe things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident. Votes: 0
Chuck KlostermanA guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident. Votes: 0
Anquan BoldinNot many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident. Votes: 0
James A. OwenWe are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonIn real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year. Votes: 0
Beverley MitchellSygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident. Votes: 0
Woody AllenIf a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving? Votes: 0
Mario AndrettiI only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. Votes: 0
Patricia HighsmithA good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamI was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way Votes: 0
Adrian MitchellYou were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility. Votes: 0
Russel HonoreMuch of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. Votes: 0
Sonia SotomayorIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltI see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident . Votes: 0
Harvey PenickI am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsEvery event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. Votes: 0
Pearl S. BuckThe impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time. Votes: 0
Tibor FischerI had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident. Votes: 0
Rita RudnerIt's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close. Votes: 0
Patrick JonesEither we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. Votes: 0
Thornton WilderA boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident. Votes: 0
Adam YoungIt was the first car accident I had ever been in. It shakes you up a little bit. Votes: 0
Matt HasselbeckDeath is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. Votes: 0
Albert Scott CrossfieldIt was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part. Votes: 0
Ron EldardI always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. Votes: 0
Francis BaconMost of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. Votes: 0
Isabel PatersonA long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. Votes: 0
Dan BuettnerI never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. Votes: 0
Thomas A. EdisonThe makeup person said oh my God what happened to you? I looked like I was in a car accident. Votes: 0
Cheri OteriThe greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. Votes: 0
Charles LambI didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident. Votes: 0
Ian AstburyIf the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody! Votes: 0
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