Minor Accident Quotes

#1. Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

Roger Scruton

#2. 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 claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

Patrick MacGill

#3. What will you do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver

Tara Bliss

#4. That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

Tom Glavine

#5. We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

Bubba Smith

#6. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Josh Billings

#7. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.

Manuela George-Izunwa

#9. An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.

Marcel Proust

#10. The grass is always greener when it's covered in money.

Craig Benzine

#11. Robin hasn't got a big nose - but I can soon arrange that.

Maurice Gibb

#12. Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.

Jerome F. Lederer

#13. The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

Richard Goldschmidt

#14. On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.

Angela Carter