James Luther Adams
Theologian, Author
"An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident."
Accidents quotes
Accidents
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T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing."
Jerry Smith
Musician
"Don't learn safety by accident."
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"There are no accidents in Nature."
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"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."
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"Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings."
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"I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego."
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"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?"
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"We do not suffer by accident."
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"There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over."
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"It takes two to make an accident."
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"I am not an afterthought I am not an accident."
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"I am, I hope, never offensive by accident."
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"Promptly improve your accidents."
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"A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents."
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"Nothing is or can be accidental with God."
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"I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all."
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"You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident."
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"A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept."
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"In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing."
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"Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident."
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"There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet."
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"Never insult anyone by accident."
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"I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me."
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