It's hard to make things right for everyone." "But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.
A no-hitter is a freaky thing,' Tweet said. 'Most of the greatest pitchers never pitched one. It's a combination of a lot of little accidents.
Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes...
that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.
It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.
Just remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it.
She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.
I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.
If the universe is friendly, then it is indeed aware of us and works to help us. So there are no 'unfortunate accidents,' and everything that happens is orchestrated in an elaborate and complicated manner to be of benefit to us.
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.
