Accident Quotes

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
Henry Walter Bates

Time, Enough, Whole

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
Martin Puryear

Work, Chance, Idea

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Michael Ledeen

God, History, Human

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni

Great, Actions, Fortune

It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.
Laurent Jalabert

Today, True, End

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.
Mary McAleese

Life, Peace, Women

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
Manute Bol

God, Long, Play

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 an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
Brian Michael Bendis

Art, Living, Wanted

I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.
Pauley Perrette

Life, School, Everything

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
Jeff Greenfield

Politics, Happen, Exhaustion

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
Paul Virilio

Politics, War, Means

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
Alec Issigonis

I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.
William Lucking

Remember, Two, Matter

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Vincent Canby

Television, April, Scene

One does not become a guru by accident.
James Fenton

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.
Brooke Langton

Car, Through, Remember

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown

Human, Often, Lives

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
Peter Conrad

Job, Historian, Innocuous

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet

Work, Great, Yourself

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
Peter Cooper

History, True, Human

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
Sidney Lumet

Films, Director

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