Accident Quotes

1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. — Ernest Hemingway
Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married… — Diana Gabaldon
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the… — Moderata Fonte
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of… — Andre Agassi
Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident? — Josh Lanyon
It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly… — Hilary McKay
If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an… — Ally Carter
Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite.… — Sherwood Anderson
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite… — Michael Cunningham
Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down… — Melina Marchetta
And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by… — Nicole Krauss
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and… — Hugh Walpole
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.… — Oscar Wilde
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. — Victor Hugo
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible,… — B.F. Skinner
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and… — Francine Rivers
You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than… — Isaac Marion
I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in… — Sylvia Plath
Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right. — Elizabeth Lowell
And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time." "That accident was not my fault." "You were the only one… — Rachel Caine
You punched him by accident. — Sarah Dessen
Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his… — Nadeem Aslam
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane. — Thomas Pynchon
Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of… — C.S. Lewis
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than… — Ian Mortimer

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