Accident Quotes

1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. — Edgar Degas
On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda… — Edward Teller
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. — Edward Kennedy
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of… — Eustace Mullins
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. — Unknown Author
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from the greatest planet… — J C Ryle
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident. — Brad Meltzer
Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working… — Connie Willis
I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it… — Tony Stewart
I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in… — John Trevor Godfrey
You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose.… — Rick Warren
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that… — Howard Barker
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. — Martin Cruz Smith
After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. — Lou Gramm
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident… — Peter Medawar
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the… — Helen Frankenthaler
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child — Stephen Stills
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer
Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them… — Lee Smolin
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as… — Brian Michael Bendis
That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to… — Ayn Rand
A lot happens by accident in poetry. — Howard Nemerov
The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not… — Austin Osman Spare
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch… — Theodosius Dobzhansky

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