Accidents Quotes · Page 28

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

— Nick Cohen

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

— Charles Dickens

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses…

— Francis Bacon

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and…

— Alan King

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some…

— Brie Larson

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper…

— Leo Baekeland

The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.

— Tina Fey

I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat…

— Elie Tahari

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the…

— Joan Miro

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. In fact through time,…

— Carole Bouquet

When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs…

— James Surowiecki

Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice…

— Allan Bloom

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how…

— Anonymous

I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just…

— Aline Brosh McKenna

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or…

— Anthony Bourdain

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our…

— Neil Postman

If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our…

— Paul Craig Roberts

We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of…

— Abraham Flexner

[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her…

— Jessie Sampter

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain…

— Howard Barker

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely…

— Hannah Arendt

Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man…

— Annie Dillard

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

— Leonard Bishop

You didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God.

— Joel Osteen

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur

Rallying is a sport in which accidents do happen. You have to respect the conditions you face.

— Colin McRae

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching...my car into reverse and driving away from the accident.

— Anonymous

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones…

— Erik Estrada

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

— Joe McNally

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the…

— Red Smith

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen,…

— Kevin Drumm

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at…

— Jack Anderson

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

— Edmond H. Fischer

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

— Plato