Accident Quotes

1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from… — David Lloyd George
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the… — Laozi
Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment — David Lloyd George
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances… — Charles Dudley Warner
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with… — Elwyn Brooks White
Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one… — Tom Cruise
If you think is was an accident, applaud. — Geraldo Rivera
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified… — George Santayana
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going… — Phil Jackson
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is… — Edward Dahlberg
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters. — Michael Josephson
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and… — Maya Angelou
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes… — Dale Carnegie
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces… — Albert Einstein
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple… — Simon Newcomb
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the… — Lewis H. Lapham
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident. — Stephen Jay Gould
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable. — H. L. Mencken

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