Top 100 By Accident Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.
Roger Penrose
#3. No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.
Ronnie Apteker
#4. 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
#5. The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.
Timothy Leary
#6. People didn't get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others.
Jude Watson
#7. Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
Clay Shirky
#8. Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
David H. Murdock
#9. Will you accept me? (Fury)
No, I'm here naked with you because all my clothes fell off by accident and I can't find them. (Angelia)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident
John Ford
#11. I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.
Paula Hawkins
#13. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
#14. I promise, I will never shoot you by accident.
Joanna Wylde
#16. I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.
Michael Crichton
#17. I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
H.P. Lovecraft
#18. And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
Brian Michael Bendis
#19. The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don't get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.
Joel Osteen
#21. Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
Adrian Bejan
#22. History happens," said the Doctor. "Even when I'm not around."
"Only by accident," said Kadiatu...
Ben Aaronovitch
#23. I became an actor by accident, not by design.
James Lipton
#24. Did he still know any of the children he'd played with at that party? Hide-and-seek: He'd hidden so well that he'd become dead, and even when he'd been resurrected, he was still obscured from them. He had stumbled on to a different road by accident.
Maggie Stiefvater
#25. I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?
Arsene Wenger
#27. We don't meet people by accident. They're meant to cross out path for a reason.
Kathryn Perez
#28. My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
Ajay Naidu
#29. At least," Mother said, "that's the story Aunt Esther tells."
"What do you mean?" I asked. "Isn't it true?"
"Stories are never 'true'," Mother said. "But they may, almost by accident, contain 'truth'. Sometimes.
Joyce Carol Oates
#30. ... 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
#31. The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.
Clifford D. Simak
#32. You do not have opportunities for influence by accident. God-given opportunities bring God-intended responsibilities. Do all the good you can wherever God puts you. Apply this to your situation among family members, your neighbors, and your coworkers.
Layton Talbert
#33. I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .
Harvey Penick
#35. From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.
Ashley Purdy
#36. Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Nastassja Kinski
#37. And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.
Nicole Krauss
#38. The desires of your heart were not put there by accident. Follow them.
Mandy Hale
#39. When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.
Ronald Reagan
#40. Pretty' doesn't mean 'good,' you know, Geneva. Real life isn't like fairy tales. 'Pretty' simply means that by accident you've got things arranged on your outside in an extra-pleasing manner. It doesn't tell a thing about your inside.
Natalie Babbitt
#41. I never meant to lie to you." I do hear it in his voice. He means it. But lying isn't something you do by accident.
Jessica Love
#42. Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident.
Phil LaMarr
#43. Anna Quangel wishes she could stroke her husband's hand, but she doesn't dare. She just brushes it, as if by accident, and says, 'Oh, sorry, Otto!' He looks at her in surprise, but doesn't say anything. They walk on.
Hans Fallada
#44. Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.
Daniel J. King
#45. I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Upton Sinclair
#46. The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of day left behind by accident, dusk having closed in elsewhere.
Thomas Hardy
#47. Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.
Joe Abercrombie
#48. I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.
John Britt Daniel
#49. 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
#50. It's drugs, isn't it? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends ... all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -'
'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.
Lisa Kleypas
#51. Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.
Guy Garvey
#52. When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.
Jason Lytle
#53. Harmony doesn't happen by accident, accidents happen by accident.
Nityananda Das
#54. Whoa,calm-
I whipped around, slapping my palm flat against the chest of-Jack. Again. Seriously,one of these times I was going to kill him by accident. Or on purpose.And I wasn't going to be sorry.
Kiersten White
#55. If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
#56. In short, if Cameron said "bunch of migrants" by accident, he is a dick, but if he said it on purpose, in order to draw the eye, dead-cat-style, away from the Google atrocity, which he did, then he is a bastard, which is worse.
Stewart Lee
#57. I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#58. Girls like Tess don't do anything by accident. You watch her, Ellie. Don't turn your back on her for a minute.
Jayne Pupek
#59. Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.
Amy Grant
#60. You know I started an orphanage so totally by accident. A lady came to me and asked me if I would, I will help her and we start it with little school and then I fell in love with it.
Oscar De La Renta
#61. When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.
Shane Harper
#62. Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it's the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence ... all directed at specific goals.
Gary Ryan
#63. An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.
J. E. Buckrose
#65. There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.
Charles Dickens
#66. People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.
Josh Lanyon
#67. My writing isn't a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.
Gary Lutz
#68. One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
Ramana Maharshi
#69. I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.
Alice Walker
#70. Every day can be a platform to get you closer to your mountaintop. And yet, too many people live life by accident.
Robin Sharma
#71. You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.
Steve Rauschenberger
#72. I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that ... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.
David Morrissey
#73. If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
Baron De Montesquieu
#74. Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.
Jeff Beck
#75. A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.
T. S. Eliot
#76. I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Imelda Marcos
#77. Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.
Michael Josephson
#78. In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
Bruce Sterling
#79. Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.
Jack Benny
#80. All families had started off in some mysterious waay: to repopulate the earth, or by accident, or by force, or out of boredom; and it's all a mystery what each will become.
Yuri Herrera
#81. How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.
Michael Ondaatje
#82. The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
Bill Vaughan
#83. The first time he tapped her toe she thought it happened by accident. The second time, she kicked him.
Rogenna Brewer
#84. Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident."
"I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.
Terry Pratchett
#85. Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
Mike Figgis
#86. I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.
Ian Astbury
#87. They did not hang medals, in those days, on all who by accident had heard a gun fired.
Rudyard Kipling
#89. 'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
Pete Docter
#90. You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive.
Michael Hyatt
#91. How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.
Neko Case
#93. You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.
Georgette Heyer
#94. I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?
C. JoyBell C.
#95. I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.
Elie Tahari
#97. I realized that happiness was not some bird that landed on your shoulder by accident, but was a skill that was taught, or not taught, in certain houses and families. After
Jewel
#98. We were all born by accident but this wandering caravan
will make camp in perfection
Forget the nonsense categories of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination
You are soul, and you are love, ...
No more questions now as to what it is we're doing here
Coleman Barks
#99. It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
Max Planck
#100. A leader without purpose, is a leader by accident
Gyan Nagpal
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