49 Accidental Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Gary Sheffield

Home Money Back Eye Run Spike Runs Attendance Knew Blind Blind Eye Understood Accidental Came Owners Mania Turned Meant Home Run Home Runs Sudden Baseball Started

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. Ivan Pavlov

Life Daily Nature Man Living Accidental Link Surrounding Dominated Human Bread Human Life Connecting Search Included Daily Bread Oldest Things Phenomena

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. J. B. Priestley

Man Change Impossible Try Accidents Reveals Accidental Them

I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job. Jacqueline Novogratz

I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose. Jenny Slate

Myself Purpose Because Accidental Came Activist

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. Joan Blades

Myself More Occasion Accidental Referred Than Activist

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

Woman Control No Control About Attempting Written Individuals Over Since Make Always Context Accidental Situations Which Choices Novels Ever

Most political wives are accidental politicians. Kellyanne Conway

Political Politicians Most Wives Accidental

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member. Kim Gordon

Think Jim Member Kind Could Looked Well Although Around Accidental Us Fifth Really Who Sudden Started Playing

I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes. Mona Simpson

Time Challenges Power Decency Exploitation Our Characters Inside Only Scenes Generosity Powerful Particular Suppose Also Messes Reveal Least Accidental Era Odd Politically Impulses Transcend Wanted Subtle Hollywood Meaningful Specific Deeply

I'm an accidental entrepreneur. Natalie Massenet

Entrepreneur Accidental

Is anything accidental? Norman Spinrad

Accidental Anything

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. Richard Pound

Cheating Doctors Nothing Active Complex Complicity Entire About Deliberate Sophisticated Within Accidental Scientists Methods Officials Substances Planned Use Team Riders Teams Techniques

I am an accidental actor. Saqib Saleem

Am Accidental Actor

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. Serge Daney

Age Reality Emotions Indeed Synthetic Remote Accidental Encounter Images Chances

The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility. Susan Straight

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything. Tom Scholz

You Yourself Made Accidents Unless Musical Hundreds Mine About Weeks Put Days Hours Make Accidental Discover Discoveries Discovery Gold Where Anything Means Thing Things Position

It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal. William Ernest Henley

I'm an accidental writer. William P. Young

Writer Accidental

President Karzai was an accidental president. There was no paradigm for the conditions he faced, because no one could have imagined 9/11. He had to improvise under very difficult conditions to hold this country together. Ashraf Ghani

Together Country Improvise Difficult President Paradigm Faced Could Had No-One He Because Accidental Conditions Very Hold Imagined

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