Accidents Quotes · Page 30

“Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.”

— Dan Simmons

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

— Richard Condon

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

— Merv Griffin

Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed…

— Walt Whitman

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

— Roger Scruton

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious…

— Ayrton Senna

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

— Michael Portillo

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no…

— Samuel Johnson

When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car…

— Russell Simmons

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise…

— Aristotle

The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that…

— Austin Osman Spare

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under…

— John Steinbeck

I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive…

— Bethany Hamilton

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce;…

— Denis Healey

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual…

— Rohinton Mistry

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer…

— William Wordsworth

History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going…

— Scott D. Anthony

I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things…

— Stephen King

Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all…

— Ben Maddow

I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use -…

— Jackson Pollock

I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying…

— Josh Radnor

Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.'…

— Anonymous

You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you…

— Rick Warren

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is…

— Charles Baudelaire

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put…

— Anonymous

When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.

— Shane Harper

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

— Mark Rosenker

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not…

— Alma Gluck

The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the…

— Paul Virilio

My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a…

— Francis Chan

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make…

— John Gruber

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin.

— Barack Obama

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in…

— Patti Davis

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else…

— J. E. Buckrose

“I’ve had my fair share of accidents,” Gilbert replied. “I know my way around broken stuff.”

— Adam Jay Epstein

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

— George Bernard Shaw

I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.

— Ian Astbury

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

— John Updike

“Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing.”

— Tobe Hanson