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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rallying is a sport in which accidents do happen. You have to respect the conditions you face. — Colin McRae Copy Share Image
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching...my car into reverse and driving away from the accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful! — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's… — William Lucking Copy Share Image
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
People say to me all the time that I threw some money into some guy's coffee cup [by accident, thinking they were… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You are loved. You are valuable. You are crafted with beauty and purpose. I treasure you and this world needs you. There… — Curt Mega Copy Share Image
There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents,… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened… — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You know that accidents can happen and it's okay, we all fall off the wagon sometimes. — Sixx AM Copy Share Image
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident. — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more… — Charlie Fletcher Copy Share Image
I'm really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I'm terrified of crossing streets. I'm also very accident-prone...I think… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways. — Plato Copy Share Image
Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
Mostly all famous inventions start off as an accidents. For instance, my invention of running over cats. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
![“People say to me all the time that I threw some money into some guy's coffee cup [by accident, thinking they were poor]. People do make the same sort of mistake. I've made attempts to volunteer that have been calamitous!” quote by Nicole Holofcener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/987/nicole-holofcener-9867_accidents_people-say-to-me-all-the-time-that-i-thr_2188557.jpg)
![“When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f23/elizabeth-gilbert-131_accidents_when-it-seemed-like-i-was-going-to-reall_469750.jpg)
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