Accident Quotes

• Cheating is not an accident. It's a choice.

  

  Anne Curtis
  • Choice
  • Cheating
  • Accident

• Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Inscription

• How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reason
  • Accident
  • Fitting

• And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Person
  • Accident
  • Importantly

• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Worth
  • Inventions
  • Indirectly

• Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Time
  • Eternity
  • Joke

• So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against Einstein. He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Accident
  • Nazi
  • Einstein

• Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Collapse
  • Bicycle
  • Civilisation

• It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.

  

  Bill Reid
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Self-centered

• I think it was more by accident rather than design there is such a strong connection between the show and the racing fraternity, but there's just so much talent here. And, hey, both the racing and theatrical communities are made up of real people with many interests and backgrounds.

  

  Peter Hall
  • Design
  • Connection
  • Interests

• It wasn't a game. He wasn't trying to beat the train. It was an accident.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Game
  • Train
  • Accident

• I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.

  

  Morfydd Clark
  • School
  • Working
  • Television

• There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Alive
  • Accident
  • Finger

• True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Character
  • Success
  • Excellence

• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Sleep
  • Bored
  • Cruel

• It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the First Article's assurance.

  

  Wiley Blount Rutledge
  • Freedom
  • Speech
  • Assurance

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

  

  Sidney Lumet
  • Happen
  • Accident
  • Great Work

• The thing that you worry about your first flight or any flight is some kind of a problem coming up that is going to keep you from doing it. Whether it's being hit by a car, or getting in a bad accident, or coming down with some other medical disqualification. But once the boosters light, you're going.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Light

• I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Program
  • Astronaut
  • Challenger

• I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Illusion
  • Phenomena
  • Awakened

• He actually probably saved lives by accident.

  

  David Kennedy Box Car Racer
  • Actually
  • Accident
  • Probably

• None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Inspiration
  • Invention
  • Perspiration

• That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Art
  • Effect
  • Achieves

• This accident is another reminder of the need to improve the safety of transporting hazardous materials by rail.

  

  Christopher Hart
  • Safety
  • Reminder
  • Transporting

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