Accidents Quotes
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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
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Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.
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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.
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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.
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I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.
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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.
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Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.
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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"
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It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.
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I came to photography by accident.
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If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Home runs just come from accidents by me
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[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.
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
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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.
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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.
