Accidents Quotes

Accidents can happen at any time.

— Alistair Overeem

“accidents, like women, allude”

— Ned Beauman

Tragedies happen, accidents happen.

— Sarah Hanson-Young

One does not become a guru by accident.

— James Fenton

I've had motorcycle accidents!

— Ann-Margret

Things happen to people by accident.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's no such thing as accidents.

— Peyton Hillis

My musical career was an accident.

— Sade Adu

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

— Mitch Albom

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

— Georges Duhamel

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

— Francois Mauriac

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

— James Luther Adams

Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

— George Mikes

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

— Ken Macrorie

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

— A. J. Muste

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

— Pat Conroy

You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a…

— Greg Plitt

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

— John Paul Jones

Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Accidents are no longer accidents at all. They are failures of risk management.”

— Sidney Dekker

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

— Martin Cruz Smith

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

— Nicholas Meyer

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge…

— Gayle Forman

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a…

— Michael Josephson

First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far,…

— Columbus Short

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the…

— Brooke Langton

I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands…

— Paul Craig Roberts

Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that…

— Gregory Maguire

Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face,…

— Ann Curry

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm…

— Zadie Smith

In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce,…

— David Sedaris

If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”…

— Alan Watts

That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they…

— Isambard Kingdom Brunel

I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a…

— Sylvia Plath

As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that…

— Gever Tulley

It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin…

— Ascanio Sobrero

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They…

— George Saunders

What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a…

— Gail Caldwell