Accident Quotes
1026 Accident quotes by 833 unique authors
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Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that…
— Abebe Bikila
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
— George Santayana
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More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
— Warren G. Bennis
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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
— A J Muste
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A relationship is sent by God and accident.
— Fiona Shaw
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Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow…
— Michael Lewis
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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
— Martin Puryear
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Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.
— Albert M. Greenfield
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For me, everything has always been an accident.
— Craig Charles
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Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we…
— John L. Phillips
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts…
— Patrick MacGill
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It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been born…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally…
— George F. R. Ellis
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If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a…
— Alma Gluck
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
— Lara St. John
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Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the…
— Howard Nemerov
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You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.
— Ashley Judd
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We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have…
— Diane Sawyer
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We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads…
— Nikola Tesla
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One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or…
— Jessica Mitford
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To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and…
— Josef Albers
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When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space…
— Edgar Mitchell
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Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
— Nicholas Meyer
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Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get…
— Mark Slouka
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