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Letter "A" » accident
«Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.»
Author: Horace Greeley
(Editor)
| About:
Fame
| Keywords:
accident, endures, fame, popularity, riches, The Vapors, vapor, vapors, wings
«Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.»
Author: Judith Viorst
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
accident, automobile, bracket, girdle, girdles, hold tight, nicer, pattern, Philadelphia, tax bracket, tight
«Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.»
Author: Philip Crosby
| Keywords:
accident
«If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Citizenship,
Country,
Mankind
| Keywords:
accident, citizen, France, My Country
«In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.»
«for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.»
«Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
accident, by and large, countries, democracies, democratic, environment, go to war, Human rights, it No, social justice, social rights, sponsor, sponsored, sponsors, terrorism, terrorists
«How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
accident, come into, fitting, fittings, irrational, manner, riddle, riddled, riddles, riddling
«Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Civilization,
Newspapers
| Keywords:
accident, bicycle, Bicycles, civilization, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsing, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, newspapers, seemingly, unable
«Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
accident, delayed, judgement, Judgement Day
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