Top 32 Inadvertent Quotes
#1. When i was nervous, I resorted to inadvertent insults.
Fisher Amelie
#2. If you want to write a novel about our world now, you'd better write science fiction, or you will be doing some kind of inadvertent nostalgia piece; you will lack depth, miss the point, and remain confused.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#3. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
William Cowper
#4. Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.
Aleksandar Hemon
#5. In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.
Richard Holbrooke
#6. In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.
Bart D. Ehrman
#7. Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.
Cesar Aira
#8. Sorry 'bout that," Pretty Boy says with a crooked grin. I don't know whether he's apologizing for our initial collision or for the humiliating near-miss of an inadvertent motorboat situation.
Lauren Layne
#9. A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
Peter Benchley
#10. he'd looked as tall and cool as ever, but a faint panicked light in his blue eyes had put her oddly in mind of a cat that had just had an inadvertent ride in a dryer.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#11. Veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field." Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory
Walter Isaacson
#12. But there is no agency in evolution; it is inadvertent. We survived, modified, and multiplied, just like any animal alive today, and out of the wildly dodgem course we took, language arose.
Christine Kenneally
#13. An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
Elon Musk
#14. Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.
Steven Heller
#15. This was Greater Los Angeles in an age of change, crackling with the energy of doom, yearning for the Apocalypse, where an unintended slight or an inadvertent trespass on someone else's turf might result in a thermonuclear response.
Dean Koontz
#16. It's funny, or tragic, really, how an ordinary act like helping someone with their homework could be the inadvertent trigger for almost a decade of silent suffering.
Jonathan Tropper
#17. Do Catholics really go to hell if they eat meat on Fridays? Eddie asked, fascinated,
Stephen King
#18. Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Douglas Haig
#19. How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us - in the depths of her own agony and desolation!
Alphonsus Liguori
#21. Palate properly whetted, I spelunked for her clitoris, tasting Bourgogne Rouge and Maya's body.
Rex Pickett
#22. Keeping my voice level, I shook my head. Mustn't enrage the antisocial monster standing five feet away.
J.C. Daniels
#24. He didn't recruit me," Cett pointed out. "I got pulled by my balls into this little fiasco."
"I wish I cared enough to apologize," Elend said, staring at them.
Brandon Sanderson
#25. Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.
Donald Trump
#26. Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate . . .'73
Elaine Pagels
#27. I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.
Olivia Wilde
#28. He had been her sun, the star she circled endlessly. Helpless against the gravity she'd been unable to fight. She'd flown too close and melted her wings made of wax. She'd fallen. Maybe she'd never been meant to fly.
Megan Hart
#29. My friend, temporary setbacks and failures are prerequisites to success. They aren't signs that, "maybe it's just not supposed to be.
Clay Clark
#30. There are two different questions: Do you want to die? and Do you want to live? But in the darkness of my mind, not wanting to live and wanting to die don't seem like two things you can pull apart. They're wrapped up in the no more that I feel right now.
Francisco X Stork
#31. The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
Chuck Palahniuk
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