Quotes About Accidental

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

T]o think God is therefore to affirm what God is, to establish the being of God as an act. That God is thought, cognised, is essential; that this tree is thought, is to the tree accidental, unessential. … [H]ow is it possible that God – if he is to exist for us, to be an object to us – must necessarily be thought … ? … [I]t is not possible.

The city is full of accidental revelation, half-heard cries for help, and strangers who will tell you everything at the first suspicion of sympathy

I accidentally fell in love and you intentionally broke my heart.

Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed.

The Accidental Guerrilla, War of the Flea, Counterinsurgency, The Sling and the Stone, Counter-Guerrilla Operations, and A Savage War of Peace

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.

Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents!

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

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.

Nothing is more simplistic than doggedly holding onto the accidental view of major world events.

The devil['s] strongest weapon is his ability to conventionalize our Thought . . . we willfully remain the humble servants of every one else's ideas except our own . . . we have made ourselves the helpless slaves of the wicked accidental world.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.the way I m in truly love with you when I thought I will never love anyone again

Man knows the Illusion of his Life and not the Absolute Truth, the man creates the birth of the universes he has once known, but of the Illusory universes and not of those who form or are a part of the Print of our God who is the Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one.

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

This particular type of road was a motorway. A motorway is the most advanced type of road there is, which as with most forms of human advancement essentially meant accidental death was considerably more probable.

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.

The management theorist Tom Peters said, "Purpose rarely comes from sitting down and contemplating purpose. Mostly, surely in my case, one accidentally trips over purpose." It's not built in a lab; it develops as a natural by-product of working with thoughtful observation [...].

That the Nazis did not succeed in fully implementing their 'Final Solution' is, furthermore, also 'accidental'; they advanced sufficiently far on that goal, in any event, to mark that act as genocide (a conceptual feature of genocide – in contrast to homicide – is that it need not be 'complete').

Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.

Chaos is a great esthetician who accidentally generated the most beautiful landscapes of nature and the unique beauty of man.

Excuse me. I think you must've accidentally used the wrong pronoun." The growl that rumbled up out of his chest was loud enough to rattle the water glass on the bedside table. "Fine, you can stand in the corner and cheer while I kill him.

it is very difficult to totally exclude the possibility of an accidental release of a naturally occurring pathogen that was collected from bats and then taken to the lab for study.