Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
What is the distinction between "misfortune" and "calamity"? If Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune; but if someone pulled him out, it would be a calamity.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
Acting was never planned.
Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.
Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.
It's never the changes we want that change everything.
Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.
We were never meant to be baby, we just happened
If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.
I think the cleverness is inadvertent.
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.
If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.
Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
