Accidents Quotes

Excellence is never an accident.

I became a children's author by accident.

My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.

I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing.

He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.

Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.

That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them yourself. That way you're in control of the situation.

Justice seldom happens by accident.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.

I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone.

Fatigue seems to be a factor in this accident.

What men call accident is God's own part.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.