Accidents Quotes

• Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do

  

  William Zinsser
  • People
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Happy
  • Nature
  • Accidents

• This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Moment
  • Unknown
  • Breath

• I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.

  

  Nobu Matsuhisa
  • Wife
  • Car
  • Safety

• Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Mistakes
  • Accidents

• What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

  

  Gail Caldwell
  • Enough
  • Stories
  • Leaving

• 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
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Happens

• Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Accidents
  • Advantages
  • DIsoder

• I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Watches
  • Accidents
  • Allies

• I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

  

  Davone Bess
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Everything

• I came to photography by accident.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Photography
  • Accidents

• One tragic example of this orientation is the rampant prescription of painkillers, which now kill more people each year in the United States than guns or car accidents.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Accidents
  • Tragic
  • Painkillers

• A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I had to amputate your arms"

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Serious
  • Feels
  • Arms

• It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Accidents
  • Worst time

• You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Littles
  • Might
  • Pretending

• [The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

  

  Dan Beachy-Quick
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Wonderful

• The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Survival

• A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Trying
  • Environment
  • Healthy

• They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • House
  • Girl
  • Strange

• Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Progress
  • Accidents

• My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Existence
  • Creating
  • Mets

• If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Learn
  • Accidents

• Home runs just come from accidents by me

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Home
  • Accidents
  • Runs

• Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

  

  Ernest Greenwood
  • Street
  • Accidents
  • Caused

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