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Quotes About Accidental

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.
~ Hooman Majd
I generally write the songs accidentally. They generally come out of nowhere.
~ Chris de Burgh
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. ... It wasn't where I meant to be, And it wasn't where I had my start, But now I'll never leave these rain-soaked bogs Because Berk is where I left my heart!
~ Cressida Cowell
I accidentally knew all the words.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Humor 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
I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.
~ Stewart Lee
The more the public is interested in artists, the less it is interested in art. The personality of the artist is not a thing the public should know about. It is too accidental.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
~ Nancy Mitford
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
~ Serge Daney
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
~ Margaret Atwood
At the end of my November 1973 visit, I suggested to Zhou a hotline between Washington and Beijing as part of an agreement on reducing the risks of accidental war.
~ Henry Kissinger
That is the way in which the majority of people of our circle make life possible for themselves. Their circumstances furnish them with more of welfare than of hardship, and their moral dullness makes it possible for them to forget that the advantage of their position is accidental,
~ Leo Tolstoy
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
~ Masayoshi Son
The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Anyhow, isn't it better to think we've got here by mistake?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Tu eÈ™ti pentru mine relaÈ›ia necesar?. ToÈ›i ceilalÈ›i sunt întâmpl?tori.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And then I think, maybe that's what we are. An accidental spectacle.
~ Tracy K. Smith
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
~ Tracy Letts
Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.
~ Winston Groom
So what can they tell us, the writers of dream books, the scholars of oneiric signs and omens, the doctors with couches for analyses— if anything fits, it's accidental, and for one reason only, that in our dreamings, in their shadowings and gleamings, in their multiplings, inconceivablings, in their haphazardings and widescatterings at times even a clear-cut meaning may slip through.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
And maybe it was more than that. Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of this particular man. Maybe it was an involuntary, atavistic response to thousands of years of violence against women. Maybe it was for every rape, every brutal backhanded slap, every other Perry that had come before this one.
~ Liane Moriarty
Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of that particular man.
~ Liane Moriarty