Quotes About Accidental

Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

Evolutionary processes made us susceptible to suffering but also gave us—accidentally—a tool by which we can prevent much of this suffering. The tool, once again, is our reasoning ability. Because we can reason, we can not only understand our evolutionary predicament but take conscious steps to escape it, to the extent possible.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around. What we now call virtual money came first. Coins came much later, and their use spread only unevenly, never completely replacing credit systems. Barter, in turn, appears to be largely a kind of accidental byproduct of the use of coinage or paper money.

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

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.

I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.

The mimetic nature of desire accounts for the fragility of human relations. Our social sciences should give due consideration to a phenomenon that must be considered normal, but they persist in seeing conflict as something accidental, and consequently so unforeseeable that researchers cannot and must not take it into account in their study of culture.

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

not being either philosophers17 to understand the reason, or mathematicians enough to calculate the powers and to proportion the parts, very luckily by accident found what they sought for.

It is only in staring horrors in the face and insisting on their systemic, not accidental, character that theory sustains radical commitments.

We didn't do any of it on purpose. We're just … not very good at things.

His mouth spewed out a gigantic waterfall of stupid comments on a regular basis, but he'd always said them on purpose. Being an accidental dullard was something new. Did sudden celebrity turn one into an idiot? It would certainly explain a lot...

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

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

It grew in the dark, it's a stack, a hyperobject, an accidental megastructure. No

In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental. To be out at dawn was important.

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