Inadvertency Quotes & Sayings

I would rather avoid disaster than take it out for dinner and a movie. - Chynna Lennox — Jim Cooper

Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships. — Ronald Reagan

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief. — Nostradamus

I love getting older! — Evangeline Lilly

A garden is never beautiful by accident. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum

I'm not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I'm fasting. It's pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don't cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don't eat deep-fried food! — Bill Johnson

He protested. "Wealth," he said, "is no sort of power at all unless you make it one. If it is so in your world it is so by inadvertency. Wealth is a State-made thing, a convention, the most artificial of powers. You can, by subtle statesmanship, contrive what it shall buy and what it shall not. In your world it would seem you have made leisure, movement, any sort of freedom, life itself, _purchaseable_. The more fools you! A poor working man with you is a man in discomfort and fear. No wonder your rich have power. — H.G.Wells

They got the horses moving at a faster shuffle, but it occurred to Vim as they trudged and struggled and cursed their way toward Sidling, that Sophie's brothers - passing him the baby, making inane small talk with him, and even in their silences - had been offering him some sort of encouragement. Would that her ladyship might do the same. Inside — Grace Burrowes

The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together ... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea. — John Locke

Ostara, if one dies while in these othere states of consciousness, one dies indeed. this begs the question, are dreams truly only ever dreams? — Nancy Holder

Colourful lips are pretty, child but they also speak colourful lies. — J. Limbu

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn. — Mason Cooley

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ... — Thomas Browne

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. — Felix Frankfurter

Ahhh, now, you see, we've been through this, and my thought is this: there's no smoke without fire," Archie would say, looking impressed by the wisdom of his own conclusion. "Know what I mean?" This was one of Archie's preferred analytic tools when confronted with news stories, historical events, and the tricky day-to-day process of separating fact from fiction. There's no smoke without fire. There was something so vulnerable in the way he relied on this conviction, that Samad never had the heart to disabuse him of it. Why tell an old man that there can be smoke without fire as surely as there are deep wounds that draw no blood? — Zadie Smith

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel. — Alex Berenson

It doesn't matter who's in the box. You go after them and get them out the best way you can. — Roy Oswalt