Accidents Quotes

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

It takes two to make an accident.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.

Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

Cheating is not an accident. It's a choice.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway.

Promptly improve your accidents.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as 'all accidents are preventable'.

We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."

And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.