Top 100 An Accident Quotes
#1. So, was it an accident or Diana's life's great purpose: to die in a way that would mean that she will always be loved? You decide.
Christopher Miller
#2. Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.
Svetlana Alexievich
#3. Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.
Ninette De Valois
#4. 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 the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident.
Edgar Mitchell
#5. I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.
Kevin Warwick
#6. For me, everything has always been an accident.
Craig Charles
#7. My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.
Francis Bacon
#8. Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.
Bernard Lietaer
#9. An accident of birth had signed her death warrant.
He could mark her name off his to-do list.
Linda Howard
#10. Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
William Torrey Harris
#11. Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.
Jerome F. Lederer
#12. I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.
Crystal Woods
#13. Maybe it's a new beginning for our kind. Maybe it was all an accident. Just one more particle in a chain, maybe one change in the resonance, and something happened to make us into more than what we were.
Chris Reher
#14. I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.
Carrie Underwood
#15. We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.
Paul Michael Glaser
#16. If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
Al Unser
#17. You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!
Bruce Wilkinson
#18. DAY 2 You Are Not an Accident I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born. ISAIAH 44:2A (CEV) God does not play dice. ALBERT EINSTEIN
Rick Warren
#19. 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 accident
(Hale)
Ally Carter
#20. No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.
Gary Zukav
#21. To paraphrase Stephen King, sometimes an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend. Put
MaryJanice Davidson
#22. I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
Jack Anderson
#23. What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#24. My musical career was an accident.
Sade Adu
#25. You look like an accident going somewhere to happen
Richard Wright
#26. Don't allow your feelings to drive the car; you're bound to get in an accident!(HS/el)
Evinda Lepins
#27. The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
Wole Soyinka
#28. So what? So we sit there and do nothing every day in case we have an accident? Is that really how to live?
Jojo Moyes
#29. Racism - if you look closely - is about profit. The whole system was built on it. War - if you look closely - is about profit. Poverty, which is not, and never has been, an accident - if you look closely - is about profit.
Stan Goff
#30. Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn't feel like a death plummet.
Michael Robotham
#31. The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and
where perfect judgment would have advised against going?
Charles Lindbergh
#32. It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
James Salter
#33. I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.
Stephen King
#34. Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture ... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless ...
Jean Cocteau
#35. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
Thomas Carlyle
#36. If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#37. Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
Jon Foreman
#38. I stare at the long, almost elegant thinness of the wrist bone jutting out from a heap of flesh and cloth. All that separates us, that poor woman and me, is an accident of birth.
L.E. Sterling
#39. Perhaps fate is an answer from God ... or perhaps fate is nothing more than an accident - two ships lost in the dark, running aground on the same windward beach.
Ramona Ausubel
#40. Every incident in this earth is either an accident colliding with our peaceful life, or our creation to gain a better life.
Durgesh Satpathy
#43. I've never tried to drive my career in any particular direction. I've always been an in-the-moment, live-for-today guy. I've never had a goal, and nearly everything I've done has been an accident. I just play to me, and if I can amuse myself, I consider it a victory.
Doug Stanhope
#45. Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.
Brie Larson
#46. Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?
Zadie Smith
#47. Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley
#48. There must be many of us whose lives have been divided into a before and after, with an accident, a death, a crime, a crisis, some moment or year or relationship that came between and changed everything. I want to see how your life moved forward from that point of division.
Kathryn Harrison
#49. Love is more like an accident than a plan. It's more of a question than an answer.
Katie Kacvinsky
#50. I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
Earl Campbell
#51. The night didn't go so well because I broke his nose, which was an accident that happened when I hit him in the face because he touched my arse.
Cath Crowley
#52. Pop said life was like learning to drive. You were bound to fuck up, make mistakes, maybe even cause an accident, but if you practice and follow the rules, people didn't have to get hurt - and one day you'd just get better at it. Just don't . . . give it up, he said.
Anyta Sunday
#53. Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
Arthur Balfour
#54. 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
M.I.A.
#55. I was born a human but this was an accident of fate ... since childhood I've been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I'm in a position where I can actually become one.
Kevin Warwick
#56. Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
Beatrix Potter
#58. Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?
Pittacus Lore
#59. When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
Dan Gilroy
#60. A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
Leon Krier
#61. Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
Dick Butkus
#62. We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Vincent Canby
#63. Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.
Robert Warren
#64. It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.
Johnny Moscato
#65. I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.
Rei Kawakubo
#66. If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.
Mark Hoppus
#67. The girl who climbed up the water tower. We would have counted her an accident until the medical examiner found breaks and fractures from her hips to her heels. "You fall head first," he said. "Feet first's a jump.
Thomas Lynch
#68. Sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend
Stephen King
#69. 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
#70. A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.
T. S. Eliot
#71. Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
Wilford Brimley
#72. It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.
Sonny Bono
#73. I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind ... you'll see that. -Caleb
C.J. Roberts
#74. We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim.
James Hillman
#75. Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift.
Mike Dooley
#76. Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
Joseph Conrad
#77. I've got to find Holmes."
"I guess that means you haven't heard. Oh, Jamie, I didn't want to be the one to tell you. But there's been an accident. A horrible, horrible accident.
Brittany Cavallaro
#78. That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.
Robert Lanza
#79. Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
Padma Lakshmi
#80. I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
Gayle Forman
#81. Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.
T.D. Jakes
#82. Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?
Jodi Picoult
#83. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does.
Eleanor Catton
#84. There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent
#85. Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA
oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's[sic] first act in office was to promote "gays in the military." RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters
it all goes together.
Jerome Corsi
#86. Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature ... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.
Ann Curry
#87. Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.
Daniel J. King
#88. Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.
Leila Janah
#89. Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
Irvin D. Yalom
#90. Accidents often produce the best solutions ... only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.
Jennifer Morla
#91. There's never a right time for you to fall. It's why they call it falling. It's an accident. In one second. Just pray that wherever you land, you're not there alone.
Katy Evans
#92. I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.
Marc Cherry
#93. What a curious shape you are! May I ask were you born like that, or is it the result of an accident?" "It
Oscar Wilde
#94. Man is an accident who yearns for necessity
Nigel Hems
#95. Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
Joseph Conrad
#96. it's purely an accident that we live in a world where 85 people, 85 people, own half the world's wealth
Matt Kennard
#97. We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.
Rudy Giuliani
#98. Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.
John Ruskin
#99. Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.
Stephen King
#100. There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.
Frank Pittman
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