#accident

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ↗

— Aristotle

#bears #best #circumstances #dignity #grace

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

#almost #art #artist #because #deciding

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom. ↗

— Angela Davis

#around #became #because #country #demand

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. ↗

— George Farquhar

#fortunes #get #government #heads #hearts

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards. ↗

— Earl Campbell

#backed #backwards #game #had #i

One does not become a guru by accident. ↗

— James Fenton

#become #does #guru

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#accidental #always #attempting #choices #context

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#highbrow #i #i do #music #personally

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#after #black #black sheep #end #much

I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years. ↗

— William Lucking

#bridge #called #doing #fact #fell