Accidents Quotes · Page 27

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

— Adam Jay Epstein

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

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

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

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

— Tobe Hanson

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

— Michael Portillo

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

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of…

— Mickey Rourke

[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a…

— Rush Limbaugh

How frail you are. I don’t want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian) I’m not as frail as I appear. I know…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character…

— Ian Mcewan

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have…

— Samuel Johnson

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster…

— Daisaku Ikeda

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary…

— Pope Francis

I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I…

— Mark Twain

Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out…

— Richard Rohr

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a…

— Elinor Glyn

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove.I carried…

— Daphne du Maurier

“If we calculated the possibility of a googolplex possible accidental universes (created somehow just of themselves) as ours is and divided it…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Don't be afraid of StarClan. They will understand about Brokentail. You will be honored by our warrior ancestors for your loyalty toy…

— Erin Hunter

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

— Isaac Marion

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

— Beverley Mitchell

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

— Jeff Gordon

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the…

— Aristotle

I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there…

— Lisa Lutz

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out…

— Lee Smolin

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Hey umm excuse me miss umm Hey you should try to get your whole face in the picture not just your boobs.

— Armin Ferizovic

I bet you were born on the freeway, they say thats where the worst accidents happen

— Anonymous

“In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri