Accidental Quotes - page 5

The laws of nature, as analyzed mathematically and descriptively by Ptolemy and Galen, bore an interesting, and perhaps not entirely accidental similarity to the law of nations and of nature, as discerned by a long succession of Roman jurists. ...The concept of an objective law applicable to human affairs, yet operating in accord with Nature and Reason and apart both from divine revelation and from human whim or passion, was peculiar to Rome and societies descended from Rome. (William H. McNeill)
Art is an expression and stimulus to the imaginative life rather than a copy of actual life. Art appreciates emotion in and for itself. The artist, is the most constantly observant of his surroundings and the least affected by their intrinsic aesthetic value. As he contemplates a particular field of vision the aesthetically chaotic and accidental conjunction of forms and colours begin to crystallize into a harmony. View quote
Roger Fry
I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV. View quote
Daisy Fuentes
Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. View quote
Dick Pound
I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity. View quote
Eliza Coupe
In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933. View quote
Honor Harger
I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. View quote
Joan Blades
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. View quote
Larry Elder
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. View quote
Gary Sheffield
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect. (Masayoshi Son)
I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me. View quote
Reeve Carney
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. View quote
Serge Daney
I'm an accidental writer. View quote
William P. Young
You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That's what gives you dignity that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees, the birds, the earth everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you. View quote
Rajneesh
Nothing is or can be accidental with God. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And in terms of poverty and race in this country, again, you know, one of the things that I really, really wanted to stress is, the level of poverty specifically that you see in the African-American community is not accidental. It's not accidental. This is part of the process. The process of enslavement involves stealing something from someone. It involves taking something from someone. View quote
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Christianity is something more than religion- that is, religion interpreted in its etymological sense, and as it is popularly esteemed. Christianity is religion developed into its last form, and carries men from necessity to voluntariness - from bondage to emancipation. It is a condition of the highest and most normal mental state, and is ordinarily spontaneous and free. This is not an accidental phrase. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral, or incidental, or accidental events we are indebted for the most numerous and most valuable discoveries, that it has at length become necessary, in any prospective view of improvement, to make not only large, but the largest allowances for inventions that shall arise by chance, and quite out of the range of ordinary expectation. It is no longer philosophical to base, upon what has been, a vision of what is to be. Accident is admitted as a portion of the substructure. We make chance a matter of absolute calculation. We subject the unlooked for and unimagined, to the mathematical formulae of the schools. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. View quote
Michael Moore
I am not insensible to natural beauty, but my emotional joys center on the improbable yet sometimes wondrous works of that tiny and accidental evolutionary twig called Homo sapiens. (Stephen Jay Gould)
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame. View quote
Samuel Johnson
May not our boasted knowledge be simply conditioned by accidental environments, and thus be liable to a large element of subjectivity hitherto unsuspected and scarcely possible to eliminate? View quote
William Crookes
PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. View quote
Alan Moore