Accidents Quotes
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Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.
Richard Feynman -
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley
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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 -
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 -
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.
Herbert Spencer -
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
Michael Caine -
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 -
Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.
Nicholas Sparks
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
Herbert Spencer -
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
Terence McKenna -
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
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 -
I came to photography by accident.
Eve Arnold -
Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.
Eileen Collins
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Home runs just come from accidents by me
Craig Biggio -
If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
Elvis Costello -
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 -
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
Wole Soyinka -
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 -
You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.
Paul Newman
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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 -
Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.
Ernest Greenwood -
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.
Shirley Chisholm -
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
Wole Soyinka