In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it. (Quote by - Leo Lionni)

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star:(Quote by - Clarence Shepard Day)

When everything flows into place washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones I'm temporarily in a euphoric state. (Quote by - Bill Luff)

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado. (Quote by - unknown)

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, / That nothing with God can be accidental. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Oops! I wonder how that blob of paint turned up in the sky? that must be how many a bird 'happened' in a landscape and how extra leaves were added to overhanging branches. (Quote by - Jeane Duffey)

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident . (Quote by - Lauren Bacall)

There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. (Quote by - Brett Butler)

We see no reason for thinking that the opinions of the magistrate on speculative questions are more likely to be right than those of any other man. None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbors. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbors together is still smaller. (Quote by - Thomas Babington)

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. . (Quote by - V. V. Mayakovsky)

Experience has turned what was once "unexpected luck" into controlled and expected results. (Quote by - William Hook)

The happy accident happens about once a year. The rest are unhappy accidents. (Quote by - Alexander Creswell)

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely. (Quote by - Herman Kahn)

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. (Quote by - Upton Beall Sinclair)

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due places. Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives alien among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search of something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest . (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life . (Quote by - A. J. Muste)

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history. How do we know, for sure, what ever happened anywhere?(Quote by - unknown)

It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning. (Quote by - Steven Weinberg)

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them. (Quote by - Susan Hill)

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. (Quote by - Morris Raphael Cohen)

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)