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Accidental stacks considered harmful. -- Larry Wall
I hope this book will inspire the kitchen con-artist in you, increase fruit and veggie consumption in your family, and motivate you to become an Accidental Cook. Pass it on! -- Merrin McGregor
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control. -- Jonathan Coe
I'm an accidental entrepreneur. -- Natalie Massenet
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. -- J. B. Priestley
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. -- Arthur Miller
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes. -- Ben E. King
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. -- Conrad Veidt
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health. -- David Suzuki
The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky in 1933. -- Honor Harger
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
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. -- Stephen King
Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus' pestering little sister. -- Beverly Cleary
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. -- Ivan Pavlov
I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. -- Pele
The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. -- Bertrand Russell
Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. -- Richard Pound
All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care. -- Arundhati Roy
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. -- Gary Sheffield
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so. -- Mayim Bialik
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything. -- Tom Scholz
Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store. -- Jodie Foster
I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile. -- Helen Mirren
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. -- Sharon Salzberg
Is anything accidental? -- Norman Spinrad
I'm an accidental writer. -- William P. Young
Success is never accidental. -- Jack Dorsey
Im an accidental entrepreneur. -- Natalie Massenet
Nothing with God can be accidental. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beauty is an accidental and transient good. -- Samuel Richardson
Nothing under the sun is ever accidental. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nothing is or can be accidental with God. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success. -- Thomas a Kempis
The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental. -- Akhmad Kadyrov
You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury. -- Philip K. Dick
Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
I'm not an actual author but an accidental one. -- William P. Young
The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement -- Edgar Degas
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame -- Samuel Johnson
Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained. -- David Soul
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. -- Mason Cooley
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result. -- Ambrose Bierce
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. -- Vincent Van Gogh
At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory. -- Arsene Wenger
I like the accidental nature of being in the real world. -- Beeban Kidron
I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me. -- Reeve Carney
Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really. -- Christian Bale
All deaths before the age of 100 are accidental, caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness. -- Chiyo Uno
I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental. -- Vincent Van Gogh
How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance. -- Louis Kahn
It's not an accidental entanglement; it's an intentional knot. Love belongs with belonging. -- Brene Brown
I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. -- Joan Blades
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. -- Michel de Montaigne
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. -- Chauncey Wright
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body. -- Anna Akhmatova
Fact: If you don't have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental. -- Todd Duncan
There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental. -- Philip Sidney
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. -- Joseph Heller
Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. -- J. K. Rowling
Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism. -- Anton Ehrenzweig
Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental. ... -- D. A. Fisher
In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need. -- Hannah Szenes
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works. -- Gayle Forman
[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. -- Richard Dawkins
Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental. -- Darnell Lamont Walker
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ? -- Robert E. Lee
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. -- Larry Elder
A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war. -- Edward Gibbon
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke. -- Maureen Johnson
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. -- Serge Daney
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. -- Asger Jorn
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. -- Max Beckmann
You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. -- Rajneesh
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. -- Thomas Carlyle
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect. -- Masayoshi Son
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination. -- Karen Lord
To grow a melody?" "You can't grow a melody on purpose, she said, and slyly added, you have to plant an accidental. -- Gregory Maguire
I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it. -- Ronnie Apteker
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. -- Wallace Stegner
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time. -- Brian Greene
Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution. -- Joshua Fernandez
I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed. -- Eugene McCarthy
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life. -- Yo-Yo Ma
There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental. -- Alexis Taylor
If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru. -- Dani Shapiro
Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. -- Carl Levin
Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt. -- Julia Glass
New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war. -- Herman Kahn
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention. -- Boris Sidis
Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young. -- Rebecca Goldstein
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure. -- Robert Doisneau
That is the saddest thing: He [Prince] always thought I would die of a drug overdose, and here it happens he dies of an accidental overdose. -- Stevie Nicks
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants. -- Rumi
We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other. -- Mary Livermore
Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride. -- Raheel Farooq
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. -- William Kingdon Clifford
The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. -- Michael Moore
Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect. -- Henry David Thoreau
There are people have grown up with implicit trust. Law enforcement, you name it. It's all gone. There's doubt about everything now. And this is not accidental. -- Rush Limbaugh
I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV. -- Daisy Fuentes
Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do. -- Aya Cash
As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence. -- Fred Brooks
They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough. -- Maureen Johnson
The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. -- James Alison

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