Accidens Quotes

#1. [Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ... prior to the other categories.

Johannes Kepler

#2. It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.

Harry Mathews

#3. Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

Diane Abbott

#4. That a starship could be built, that it could be propelled by laser beams, that humanity could reach the stars; this idea appeared to have been an intoxicant, to people around Saturn and on Earth in particular.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#5. We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. The calendar says I had known him only a few months but there exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time, independent of rotating, malicious music.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. When you've earned something, I mean really earned it, no one can make you doubt that you deserve it. They can't say it isn't yours. There's something about getting a thing that you've bled and fought for that makes the getting that much sweeter.

Rachael Allen

#8. Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

Lee Westwood

#9. Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides.

Pat Conroy

#10. You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

Eddie Vedder

#11. However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

Claudio Hummes

#12. Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

Two Chainz

#13. Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

George Leonard

#14. The exhilarating alignment of the heavens was sufficiently rare that she recognized her moment of joy, thus making the joy that much more potent.

Nevada Barr

#15. All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

John Barth