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Accident is veiled necessity. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Accident is simply unforeseen order. -- Novalis
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. -- Mark Twain
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors -- Mark Twain
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. -- Henry Adams
Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing. -- T. S. Eliot
Accidents often produce the best solutions"¦ only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent. -- Jennifer Morla
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
Photography is an accident. -- Patrick Demarchelier
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. -- Alan Rickman
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. -- John Ruskin
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. -- Patricia Highsmith
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. -- Steven Wright
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. -- Horace Greeley
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. -- Thomas A. Edison
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. -- Paul J. Meyer
I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall. -- River Phoenix
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' -- James Naismith
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident. -- John C. Maxwell
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun. -- Patrick Stump
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath. -- Siri Hustvedt
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. -- Robert Baden-Powell
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. -- Ted Nugent
By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. -- Noam Chomsky
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen. -- Lucy Walker
Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.' -- Amber Heard
If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call. -- Victoria Justice
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college. -- George Lucas
Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone. -- Orlando Bloom
I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone! -- Daniel Radcliffe
Don't learn safety by accident. -- Jerry Smith
Justice seldom happens by accident. -- Patricia King
Excellence is never an accident. -- Jerold Panas
Never insult anyone by accident. -- Robert A. Heinlein
You punched him by accident. -- Sarah Dessen
Fate is a great accident. -- Arvo Ylppo
Art and accident are one. -- Frederick Sommer
No friendship is an accident. -- O. Henry
I became an actor by accident. -- Christopher Walken
City diversity represents accident and chaos. -- Jane Jacobs
Things happen to people by accident. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
I'm not clumsy; just accident prone. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Leaders live by choice, not accident. -- Mark Gorman
I came to photography by accident. -- Eve Arnold
My musical career was an accident. -- Sade Adu
A clear sentence is no accident. -- William Zinsser
We do not suffer by accident. -- Jane Austen
A lot happens by accident in poetry. -- Howard Nemerov
It takes two to make an accident. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Horror story is not result of accident. -- Jie Zhang
I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Leaders live by choice, not by accident. -- Mark Gorman
The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident. -- Paul Virilio
I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone. -- Peta Wilson
I became a children's author by accident. -- Jerry Spinelli
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. -- Lauren Bacall
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute. -- Herman Melville
Some things happen by accident - embrace them. -- Mario Testino
I started playing guitar kind of by accident. -- Ryan Cabrera
High birth is an accident, not a virtue. -- Pietro Metastasio
Cheating is not an accident. It's a choice. -- Anne Curtis
A relationship is sent by God and accident. -- Fiona Shaw
I am, I hope, never offensive by accident. -- Christopher Hitchens
What men call accident is God's own part. -- Philip James Bailey
If you think is was an accident, applaud. -- Geraldo Rivera
A thief never makes a noise by accident. -- Megan Whalen Turner
Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional. -- Amy Grant
One does not become a guru by accident. -- James Fenton
For me, everything has always been an accident. -- Craig Charles
Everything good that happened to me happened by accident. -- Jack Benny
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Success is never an accident it's always on purpose. -- T. D. Jakes
It's like watching a car accident, that reality TV. -- Enrico Colantoni
Luck is an accident that happens to the competent. -- Albert M. Greenfield
A leader without purpose, is a leader by accident -- Gyan Nagpal
To the eye of failure success is an accident. -- Ambrose Bierce
Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all. -- John Gardner
I think life's too complex to be an accident. -- Alexandra Adornetto
We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose. -- John C. Maxwell
Fatigue seems to be a factor in this accident. -- Pete Olson
I became an actor by accident, not by design. -- James Lipton
It's a tragic fact to die in an accident -- Gabrielle Zevin
If men have a smell it's usually an accident. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God. -- Joshua Harris
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident. -- Stephen Jay Gould
It's not an accident that successful people read more books. -- Seth Godin
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule. -- John Fowles
sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend -- Stephen King
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. -- Stephen Curry
It was an accident of circumstance that I never married. -- Quentin Blake
Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art. -- Seneca the Younger
You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident. -- Desmond Tutu
I am not an afterthought I am not an accident. -- Desmond Tutu
Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident. -- Nora Ephron
emotion is first of all and in principle an accident -- Jean-Paul Sartre
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. -- Francis Thompson
We are born by accident into a purely random universe. -- Robert Silverberg
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? -- Emile M. Cioran
Even the best plans can change if there's an accident. -- Daniel Handler
It is much easier to drive without having an accident. -- Alec Issigonis
...photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident. -- Taryn Simon
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. -- Frank Herbert
Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident. -- David Levithan
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. -- Pat Conroy
Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful. -- Niall Ferguson
Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident. -- Ken Macrorie
Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow. -- Alice Sebold
...we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history. -- Tessa Hadley
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. -- Sidney Lumet
Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away? -- Renata Adler
To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident. -- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue. -- Jack Woodford
Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported. -- Mary McLeod Bethune

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