Accident Quotes
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
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The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.
Ernst Junger
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In that accident, we not only lost seven colleagues, we lost seven friends, ... They believed in space exploration. They knew the risks, but they believed in what they were doing. They showed us that the fire of the human spirit is insatiable.
Charles Camarda
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Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Thomas Carlyle
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No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.
Paul Craig Roberts
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I snorted heroin once by accident. It was amazing. But kids, don't snort heroin. It's too good.
Artie Lange
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When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional ideas for cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.
Jason Lytle
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I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.
Michael Horse
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Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
Wilford Brimley
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Epictetus
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That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.
Isambard K. Brunel
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The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman