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| A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi | Hungarian Scientist |
| Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own ACCIDENTS, its habits, its breath, its name. | Alice Meynell | 1847-1922, British Poet, Essayist |
| An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| The ideal man bears the ACCIDENTS of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. | Chuck Knox | American Football Coach |
| Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. | David Lloyd George | 1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. ACCIDENTS of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish. | Derek Wall | |
| 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. | Don Marquis | 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist |
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| The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. | Edward Conklin | |
| Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident. | Edward Dahlberg | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful. | Edward Dahlberg | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| I don't believe in ACCIDENTS. There are only encounters in history. There are no ACCIDENTS. | Elie Wiesel | 1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer |
| It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer |
| An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. | Francis Thompson | 1859-1907, British Poet |
| We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of ACCIDENTS in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. | George Farquhar | c.1677-1707, Irish Playwright |
| We try not to have ideas, preferring ACCIDENTS. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. | Gilbert George | 1943-, Italian-born British Artist |
| It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. | Golda Meir | 1898-1978, Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-74 |
| These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner |
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| Fame is a vapour, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. | Horace Greeley | 1811-1872, American Newspaper Editor |
| Substance is not enough, accident is also required. | Italian Proverb | Sayings of Italian Origin |
| No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident. | James Bryce | |
| One does not become a guru by accident. | James Fenton | 1949-, British Poet, Critic |
| There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. | Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian |
| I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. | Josiah Gilbert Holland | 1819-1881, American Author |
| Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity. | Joyce Carol Oates | 1938-, American Author |
| Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. | Judith Viorst | 1935-, American Poet, Journalist |
| Humour is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers | Leo Rosten | 1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist |
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| The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend. | Lewis H. Lapham | 1935-, American Essayist, Editor |
| Did you ever observe to whom the ACCIDENTS happen? Chance favours only the prepared mind. | Louis Pasteur | 1822-1895, French Scientist Who Developed ''Pasteurization'' |
| To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. | Marie Leneru | |
| I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine] | Michael Crichton | 1942-, American Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Director, Producer |
| Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical ACCIDENTS, soon forgotten. | Milan Kundera | 1929-, Czech Author, Critic |
| 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 we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. | Milan Kundera | 1929-, Czech Author, Critic |
| To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation. | Mrs Hubbard Davis | |
| 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. | Nathanie Borenstein | Author |
| ACCIDENTS, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. | Pablo Picasso | 1881-1973, Spanish Artist |
| A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. | Paul Valery | 1871-1945, French Poet, Essayist |
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| The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. | Peter Conrad | 1948-, Australian Critic, Author |
| High birth is an accident, not a virtue. | Pietro Metastasio | 1698-1782, Italian Poet |
| In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. | Serge Daney | 1944-1992, French Film Critic |
| Art - the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence. | Source Unknown | |
| There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed. | Source Unknown | |
| We don't make mistakes, we only have happy ACCIDENTS. | Source Unknown | |
| Don't learn safety rules simply by accident | Source Unknown | |
| I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
| We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy ACCIDENTS. | Thomas B. Macaulay | 1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian |
| Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
