Best Accidents Quotations
1237 Accidents quotes by 972 unique authors
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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We…
— Nathaniel Borenstein
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.
— Unknown Author
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A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to…
— William A. Niskanen
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I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because…
— Hans Selye
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Hold on ... Say your son or daughter has just gotten killed in a car accident and you're plastered out of your mind at 3…
— Rob Ford
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It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of…
— Selma Blair
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Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary…
— Jerry Fodor
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...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of…
— Don Kates
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by…
— Thomas A. Edison
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The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but…
— John Stuart Mill
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
— Adam Clarke
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Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan…
— Chuck Knox
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Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.
— Chuck Knox
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Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I…
— W Mitchell
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Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
— Oscar de la Renta
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...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place…
— Esther Hicks
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What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed…
— Lillian Hellman
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Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he…
— Ian Kershaw
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Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the…
— Aristotle
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