Accidental Happenings Quotes & Sayings

A mother can have no secrets in a settler's hut but she cannot so much as break wind and all her children must hear what she has done but now she were far away from Fifteen Mile Creek and no longer could I guess her life. I were told she took laundry and perhaps she did but I am sure she only did what she must do. She had a mother and father and brothers and sisters but in the end she were a poor widow and she had 7 children and all of them was alarmed and unsettled by their lives. — Peter Carey

I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and this includes suffering and grief
even that of others), and that sometimes one catches a glimpse of the link between these happenings. I believe
even when I am myself blind and deaf, or even indifferent
in the existence of a mystery ... — Iris Origo

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us? — St. Vincent

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person. — Madonna Ciccone

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control ... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare. — Lance Morrow

A great teacher is the architect of a great future. — Debasish Mridha

Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity. — Ilana Mercer

With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation. — Kenneth E. Iverson

I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator. — Paul Dano

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us. — Mary Kay Ash

As to blood - ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty. — Christopher Pike

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual. — George Michael

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac. — Sherman Alexie

I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race. — Sylvia Plath

I may be an echo only, but maybe I've created a new valley. — Garry Fitchett

My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight. — Jeffrey Bernard