“I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.”

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it’s all an accident.

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.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

Accidental things have purpose.