#accident

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#common #convinced #much #resemblance #stupid

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#character #endures #fame #one thing #only

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#conspiracy #exhaustion #happen #more #politics

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#activities #certainly #complex #disruption #highly

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#compassion #courage #destroy #disaster #even

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#accidents #american #automobile #beef #century

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#discovery #meeting #mind #prepared #prepared mind

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#am #beethoven #birth #i #i am

For me, everything has always been an accident. ↗

— Craig Charles

#always #been #everything #me

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse