Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

David Talbot

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

Carl Sagan

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

Buffalo Bill

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

Catherine Helen Spence

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

Daniel Handler

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Cybill Shepherd

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

David Levithan

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Erin McKean

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Georges Braque

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

Jill Abramson

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.

Gary Hamel

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Jason Silva

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.