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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

Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war. — Edward Gibbon

Maruman does not loll. — Isobelle Carmody

I'm an accidental entrepreneur. — Natalie Massenet

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained. — David Soul

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works. — Gayle Forman

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. — Joan Blades

Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. — Robert Anton Wilson

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me. — Reeve Carney

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. — Arthur Miller

Their hands never touched, not even in an accidental brushing, and that was a good thing, for real intimacy has a dawn. — Rita Leganski

2008: Drug overdoses, mostly from opiates, surpass auto fatalities as leading cause of accidental death in the United States. — Sam Quinones

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one. — William P. Young

It was like how people find other people to be in love with, all random and accidental and lucky. — Jennifer Castle

I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose. — Jenny Slate

Freshman year. We made it. And with only one body possession and one accidental death to our names — Simon Holt

Success is never accidental. — Jack Dorsey

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need. — Hannah Senesh

Beauty is an accidental and transient good. — Samuel Richardson

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins

Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I didn't mean to come here ...
And I didn't mean to stay ...
It's just where the sea wind blew me
One accidental day ... — Cressida Cowell

The building of a computer application is very identical to the building of a house; they both have to be logically designed. — Leonard Rattini

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws. — Michel De Montaigne

A few accidental trips to China. — Rick Riordan

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

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister. — Adam Rapp

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. — J.K. Rowling

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect. — Masayoshi Son

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

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance. — Louis Kahn

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

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. — Joseph Heller

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world. — Beeban Kidron

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. — Serge Daney

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism. — Anton Ehrenzweig

An accidental chaos blindly serving up the unaccountable beauty he now saw — Anne Rice

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. — Thomas Carlyle

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn

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

not in any single system, but in the stack of all systems, the accidental megasystem. It — Kim Stanley Robinson

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame — Samuel Johnson

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed. — Vincent Van Gogh

If you plan to be happy, you will find at least one reason to be happy. Real happiness is never accidental. Discover happiness on your terms. — Olarewaju Oladipo

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

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

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

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. — Dag Hammarskjold

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. — Chauncey Wright

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. — Conrad Veidt

If the result is an intention, so what was my intention if I got the injury? — Giedrius Svetkauskas

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. — Mason Cooley

That's what love is, Georgie. Accidental damage protection. — Rainbow Rowell

It's not an accidental entanglement; it's an intentional knot. Love belongs with belonging. — Brene Brown

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes. — Ben E. King

The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole. — Kate Atkinson

The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

Fact: If you don't have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental. — Todd Duncan

Basically, being a senior means that when people throw things at your teeth, it's accidental. In other words, being a senior is awesome. — Jesse Andrews

Success was never accidental, he would say; it was always the result of a vision and hard work. Dad — James E. McGreevey

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. — Rajneesh

Part due to accidental circumstances - the — L.M. Montgomery

All deaths before the age of 100 are accidental, caused by carelessness or thoughtlessness. — Chiyo Uno

We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe. — Rick Yancey

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement — Edgar Degas

In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental. — Kim Stanley Robinson

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job. — Padgett Powell

That's what love is. Accidental damage protection. — Rainbow Rowell

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental ... — D. A. Fisher

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

Chief point was that all this was, as it were, not accidental in me, but as though it were bound to be so. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination. — Karen Lord

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personally, I think consciousness is an accidental by-product, a feedback loop to conserve resources. — Matthew Mather

[When it comes to writing]The first steps that are the hardest. Mine were accidental in a away. I wrote what I wanted on a blog & the rest is history. — A.J. Walters

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury. — Philip K. Dick

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. — J.B. Priestley

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success. — Thomas A Kempis

When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. Any conversation that takes place will be accidental. — James Anderson

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 art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. — Marcus Aurelius

Of your philosophy you make no use,
If you give place to accidental evils. — William Shakespeare

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

Nobody's granted a final day, just an accidental interruption in his life. — Kamel Daoud

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

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory. — Arsene Wenger

Nothing is or can be accidental with God. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The truth is, words are never accidental. — Karen Ehman

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