By Accident Or Design Quotes

#1. The best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.

John Gribbin

#2. Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

W.P. Kinsella

#3. The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.

Ban Ki-moon

#4. It's hard to believe that this is how it's done. That this is how we get here into the world, by accident or design, the microscopic pieces of ourselves borne by fluids and blood and growing into a tiny kingdom of cells inside someone else's body It seems so difficult to become alive. So improbable.

Dan Chaon

#5. Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.

Stephen Hawking

#6. Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

Robert L. Peters

#7. The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

Louisa May Alcott

#8. Accident is nature's way of starting a design; design is a man's way of looking at the accidents.

Thiruman Archunan

#9. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

Jim Rohn

#10. Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.

Leila Janah

#11. ... no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he has been trained to do is practice a process called design, a process that includes esthetic choices but does not consist only of them.

Ralph Caplan

#12. I became an actor by accident, not by design.

James Lipton

#13. Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

David H. Murdock

#14. An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.

Glenn Cunningham

#15. Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.

Diana Trilling

#16. To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man's thinking and doing.

Josef Albers

#17. To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Emil Ruder

#18. Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

T. S. Eliot

#19. You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.

Edie Campbell

#20. It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design.

Terry Pratchett

#21. I don't know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don't know if the whole thing's an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.

Glen Duncan

#22. I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Josh Billings

#23. Good people sometimes do bad things. Sometimes they're by accident, sometimes by design. It doesn't make you any less good. It just makes you human.

S.A. Ferkey

#24. Abusers drive wedges between people, by accident or by design.

Lundy Bancroft

#25. Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

Bob Proctor

#26. There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Rudy Giuliani

#27. It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

Michael Foley

#28. To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally different order of reality or being, not restrained within the bounds of the Universe itself.

George F. R. Ellis

#29. We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

Steve Albini

#30. It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

Charles Caleb Colton

#31. Men may irritate women entirely by accident, but I believe they infuriate one another wholly by design.

S.E. Grove

#32. 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.

Lena Headey

#33. My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

Colin Callender