(705 quotes found)
“Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents”
Bertrand Russell
“By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever”
Lao Tzu
“But the only things that interrupted our happy family life came out there on the field, injuries and accidents and sickness, as the boys gave it all they had.”
Casey Stengel
“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.”
Stephen Jay Gould
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words”
Woody Allen
“Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families”
Charles Dickens
“For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed;”
Samuel Johnson
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Mark Twain
“Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners”
Isaac Disraeli
