Accident Quotes

1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors

Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this… — Joni Eareckson Tada
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. — Francis Thompson
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like… — Leon Trotsky
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. — Mark Twain
You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb… — Mark Udall
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. — Judith Viorst
I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose… — Christopher Walken
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. — Steven Wright
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident. — Abdul Kalam
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for… — Stephen Jay Gould
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others. — Joseph Conrad
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the… — Rebecca Solnit
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example,… — Alexander Hamilton
They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all. — John Gardner
sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend — Stephen King
The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to… — Anne Michaels
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. — H. L. Mencken
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character. — Harry S. Truman
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I… — Hermann Hesse
The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile… — Nicholas Evans
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. — J. G. Ballard
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed… — Henry David Thoreau
What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of… — Scott Turow
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it. — Annie Dillard

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