#accident

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

#always #effort #intelligent #never #quality

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#amateur #been #coming #country #denials

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#being #get #grateful #help #inclined

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss. ↗

— James Belushi

#because #bomb #car #compassion #day

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year. ↗

— Beverley Mitchell

#car #car accident #during #friends #killed

Inside your soul is the ability to survive even the toughest storms, and that paradise can always be found--even in the middle of a hurricane--if you are willing to look. ↗

— Denise Hildreth Jones

#humor #love-and-romance #remarriage #humor

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #artist #craftiness #craftsmanship #crafty

Aurora sagged. "Why is it," she asked, "that every time I'm with you two we end up stealing something big?" "We always return it," Donegan said, a little defensively. "Maybe not always in one piece or necessarily to the right person but return it we do, and so it is not stealing, it is merely borrowing." Gracious looked at him. "It's a little bit stealing." "Anyone who leaves a private jet just lying around deserves to have it stolen." "It wasn't lying around," said Gracious. "It was locked up tight. It took us an hour to dismantle the security system and get inside." Donegan looked at him. "You're not helping. ↗

— Derek Landy

#funny #gracious #leave #malifecent #plane

Never insult anyone by accident. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anyone #insult #never

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#advice #better #could #does #give