Accidents Quotes
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Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities. (Quote by - Frederick Sommer)
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. (Quote by - Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld)
Tony is one of the most courageous people I've ever met. Describing his student, Tony Brown, wrestling competitively at 105 lbs, a year after having both legs amputated following an accident. (Quote by - Steve Komac)
I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. (Quote by - Stephen de Staebler)
I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. (Quote by - John Updike)
I broke my leg - after doing the first four days of A Midsummer's Night Dream - at Big Bear in a toboggan accident where I was almost killed. I was in the front of the toboggan with three big guys in back of me with a lot of inertia of the heavy weight, and my foot slipped off the toboggan, went right in the snow and split me up the middle. If it hadn't broken my femur at the exact time, I would have been killed. . . . While I was recuperating there (Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital) to get back on the set of A Midsummer's Night Dream - they were waiting for me - where I did that entire picture in a plaster of Paris cast covered up by Olivia De Havilland's dress . . . while I'm at the Presbyterian Hospital and I'm recuperating, my wife (Jan) is born on the 6th floor. Now that's a billion-to-one shot. (Quote by - Mickey Rooney)
Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected? (Quote by - George Carlin)
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors. (Quote by - Charles Hawthorne)
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us:(Quote by - Robert E. Wells)
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have. (Quote by - Jim Stovall)
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. (Quote by - Asger Jorn)
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved. (Quote by - William A. Foster)
Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say. (Quote by - Richard L. Evans)
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully. (Quote by - Janet Watson)
I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system. (Quote by - Allyson Schwartz)
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world. (Quote by - Ernest A. Fitzgerald)
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind . (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. (Quote by - Frank Herbert)
No accident so grave but that the clever man can turn it to some good; no luck so great but that the fool can twist it to his hurt. (Quote by - François)
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it. (Quote by - Leo Lionni)
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star:(Quote by - Clarence Shepard Day)
When everything flows into place – washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones – I'm temporarily in a euphoric state. (Quote by - Bill Luff)
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado. (Quote by - unknown)
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, / That nothing with God can be accidental. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Oops! I wonder how that blob of paint turned up in the sky? – that must be how many a bird 'happened' in a landscape and how extra leaves were added to overhanging branches. (Quote by - Jeane Duffey)
Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident . (Quote by - Lauren Bacall)
There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. (Quote by - Brett Butler)
We see no reason for thinking that the opinions of the magistrate on speculative questions are more likely to be right than those of any other man. None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbors. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbors together is still smaller. (Quote by - Thomas Babington)
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 of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. . (Quote by - V. V. Mayakovsky)
Experience has turned what was once "unexpected luck" into controlled and expected results. (Quote by - William Hook)
The happy accident happens about once a year. The rest are unhappy accidents. (Quote by - Alexander Creswell)
Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely. (Quote by - Herman Kahn)
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. (Quote by - Upton Beall Sinclair)
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due places. Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives alien among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search of something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest . (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
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 . (Quote by - A. J. Muste)
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history. How do we know, for sure, what ever happened anywhere?(Quote by - unknown)
It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning. (Quote by - Steven Weinberg)
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them. (Quote by - Susan Hill)
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. (Quote by - Morris Raphael Cohen)
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped. (Quote by - J. E. Littlewood)
A man and his wife, each in a different small plane, were out enjoying a flight, when the husband committed a flight error. He was able to recover, but his wife who was following him, crashed and was killed. The husband was distraught, blaming himself for the accident. One day when pleading with the Lord for forgiveness, he heard a voice saying "Jesus died, even for dumb mistakes."(Quote by - Truman Madsen)
Accidents that might occur allow unexpected textures, surfaces, and colors to develop spontaneously from some vision frozen in our subconscious. It is the stuff that we abstract expressionists work with continually. (Quote by - Alan Soffer)
Color accidents are exciting and drive me into an appreciative reassessment of the piece as a whole. (Quote by - Jerry Waese)
As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity – the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider. (Quote by - Kazuaki Tanahashi)
Although the painting is accidental in the beginning, I work toward a design that suggests a subject. (Quote by - Maxine Masterfield)
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally. (Quote by - Myfanwy Pavelic)
I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident . (Quote by - Harvey Penick)
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Every brushstroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brushstroke is, in a sense, some kind of accident. (Quote by - Raphael Soyer)
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
In my case all painting... is an accident. I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Perfect moments come in every garden, though more frequently in some than others. To the very active gardener they may not be of great importance and usually they will be happy accidents, lucky moments when, chancing to glance up, the gardener will see that this or that grouping of plants at the height of their flowering looks exactly right, because of the way the light falls on them. (Quote by - Susan Hill)
To these delights of a garden, age may add a further interest which can hardly be distinguished from beauty, for the mind, at least with those who have the historic instinct, is always longing to be connected with the past, and dreading for itself confinement upon the plane of time, delights in evidences of the long continuance of nations, families and institutions, in hale and vigorous old age, in long-settled peace beyond the turn of Fortune's wheel, the 'scornful dominion of accident.' Restfulness is the prevailing note of an old garden; in this fairy world of echo and suggestion where the Present Age never comes but to commune with the Past, we feel the glamour of a Golden Age, of a state of society just and secure which has grown and blossomed as the rose. (Quote by - George Sitwell)
Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity . . . due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series:(Quote by - Stuart Kauffman)
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The process of art-making is full of happy accidents – what fun! (Quote by - Max Elliott)
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
None of my inventions came by accident-they came by work. (Quote by - Thomas Alva Edison)
I don't use the accident. I deny the accident. (Quote by - Jackson Pollock)
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns. (Quote by - Jason Schwartzman)
I have meant what I have done. Or – I have often meant what I have done. Or – I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or – I have tried to mean what I was doing. (Quote by - Jasper Johns)
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. (Quote by - William Lyon Mackenzie King)
Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods. (Quote by - Bill Lipinski)
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement. (Quote by - unknown)
The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke. (Quote by - Jeremy Clarkson)
Some mistakenly misread the mercy and graciousness of God. For instance, some partial believers are always scolding God, or disregarding Him, because of the observable and lamentable consequences of our misuse of God's gift to us of moral agency. It is as if a teenage son, given his first car, promptly had an accident with resulting pain, suffering, and expense, and the errant son then railed at his father for permitting the suffering resulting from the son's misuse of the gift of the automobile. Granted, in defense of the analogy, mortal parents ought not to give youngsters automobiles too soon, and then only when they have provided wise counsel, driver training, and so on. But there still comes a time when, if they are ever to drive alone, trained teenagers must be left alone at the wheel. The principle is the same with us in the second estate. (Quote by - Neal A. Maxwell)
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.- Charles Caleb Colton)
It may have been accidental but you knew enough to let this alone. The intelligent painter is always making use of accidents. (Quote by - Charles Hawthorne)
The spirits of men are being born into the world by divine appointment, and not by accident. (Quote by - Joseph W. McMurrin)
We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. (Quote by - Bob Ross)
The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say:(Quote by - Søren Aabye Kierkegaard)
Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents. (Quote by - Lewis Thomas)
Omissions are not accidents. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful. (Quote by - Joan Miro)
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us . (Quote by - Alexis Carrel)
Americanism is not an accident of birth, but an achievement in terms of worth. Government does not create Americanism, but Americanism creates Government. Americanism is not a race, but a vision, a hope and an ideal. (Quote by - Dr. Louis L. Mann)
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
I shall take particular notice here of the third of November, both because 'tis my own birth day, and also for that I have observed some remarkable accidents to have happened thereupon. (Quote by - John Aubrey)
We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either. (Quote by - Price Pritchett, Ph.D)
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. (Quote by - William A. Niskanen)
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say. (Quote by - John Hench)
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept. (Quote by - Ansel Adams)
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them. (Quote by - Alan Alexander Milne)
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end. (Quote by - Jackson Pollock)
Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances:(Quote by - Robert Browning)
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result . (Quote by - James Hillman)
There are no accidents without intentions. (Quote by - Alex Miller)
Surprises are the joy of living. Surprises directly touch the soul. Good surprises energize and bad surprises teach. (Quote by - Alev Oguz)
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse. (Quote by - James Longstreet)
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Farming is among the top ten most dangerous occupations. More than 1000 individuals lose their lives each year due to farm accidents. In 1995, there were 130,000 agricultural workers injured, and approximately half of these injuries were permanent. (Quote by - Stanley Wise)
By painting one painting after another as fast as possible, not only does the work get better, but every accident becomes an opportunity to experiment. Sometimes one accident can be combined with another. (Quote by - Earl Grenville Killeen)
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. (Quote by - Sir Hugh Walpole)
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. (Quote by - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)
How true it is that out destinies are decided by nothing and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others hall be crucified . (Quote by - Henri Frederick Amiel)
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. (Quote by - Rowan Williams)
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. (Quote by - Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage . (Quote by - Henry Adams)
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment. (Quote by - Phil Jackson)
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
You need accidents, otherwise it is fake. (Quote by - Sotirios Kotoulas)
The unforseen event, the "accident," the unexpected all play a very large part in my creative play. I prefer to let the materials suggest the direction of a work. (Quote by - Burnell Yow!)
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question. (Quote by - Anji Bromley)
Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment. (Quote by - Ralph Steadman)
I don't think there's any accidents in my life. (Quote by - Billy Ray Cyrus)
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. (Quote by - Renata Adler)
And so no force, however great, Can stretch a cord, however fine, Into a horizontal line That shall be absolutely straight. d as an example of accidental metre and rhyme. (Quote by - William Whewell)
A workman of Faraday, the celebrated chemist, one day by accident knocked a beautiful silver cup into a jar of strong acid. In a little while it disappeared, being dissolved into the acid as sugar is in water, and so seemed utterly lost, and the question came up, could it ever be found again? One said it could, but another replied that being dissolved and held in solution by the acid, there was no possibility of recovering But the great chemist, Faraday, standing by, put some chemical mixture into the jar, and in a little while every particle of silver was precipitated to the bottom, and he took it out, now a shapeless mass, and sent it to the silversmith and the cup was restored to the same size and shape as before. If Faraday could so easily precipitate that silver and restore its scattered and invisible particles into the cup, how easily can God restore our sleeping and scattered dust, and change our decayed bodies into the likeness of the glorious body of Christ!(Quote by - J. M. Anspach)
Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else . (Quote by - Don Marquis)
In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't do by oneself. (Quote by - Robert Motherwell)
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology . (Quote by - Liddle Hart)
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice. (Quote by - Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld)
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident. (Quote by - Joyce Carol Oates)
The accident of an accident. (Quote by - Lord Thurlow)
In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. (Quote by - Hector Hugh Munro)
There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)
From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years:(Quote by - J. B. Phillips)
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. (Quote by - Alan Coren)
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of the circumstances. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents. (Quote by - William John Wills)
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related. (Quote by - Francois Mauriac)
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. (Quote by - Max Beckmann)
Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident . (Quote by - Bruce Sterling)
It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results. (Quote by - David Louis)
There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents - and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it and do something with it. (Quote by - Helen Frankenthaler)
Instead of being more organized or controlling in your approach, allow for serendipity. Happy accidents happen when you look side to side or up, not always forward. Don't stop planning. Rather step out of the tunnel. Put yourself in situations that allow for the unexpected. Life is situationally driven. Learning happens in context. Be ready when opportunities arise. The more space you've cleared in your life for something new, the more right things will happen. More or less. (Quote by - Marcia Conner)
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. (Quote by - Edgar Degas)
Nothing is or can be accidental with God. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth. Everybody who looks at the spectacle of modern algebra will be struck by this complementarity of freedom and necessity. (Quote by - Hermann Weyl)
Experiment by applying a few strokes suggesting it [the subject] and see what happens... develop the piece from interesting accidents. (Quote by - Jean-Francis Le Saint)
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as the trees and the animals do. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. This is an accident of hourly proof, Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!(Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - the best brain. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment . (Quote by - Frederick von Schiller)
The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone. (Quote by - Robert Rauschenberg)
What at first seems accidental is really "controlled looseness." Unity is always a top priority and is important for the success of a painting. (Quote by - Carlton Plummer)
I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it. (Quote by - Norman Lear)
That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant . (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident . (Quote by - Sidney Lumet)
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later. (Quote by - Nick Bantock)
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. (Quote by - Nathaniel Borenstein)
