Accidents Quotes

• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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• There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Happy Friday, Two

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• History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Real, Team, Character

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Past

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  Aristotle

  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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• Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Needs, Littles, Madness

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• When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones ? I'm temporarily in a euphoric state.

  Bill Luff

  Light, Sound, Dry

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• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Native American, Animal

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• I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.

  Jasper Johns

  Mean, Done, Sometimes

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• As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Creativity, Design, Accepting

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• My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

  Max Beckmann

  Trying, Quality, Figures

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Clouds, Design, Unknowing

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Would Be, Advantage

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• The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Spring, Creativity, Opportunity

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• They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

  A. A. Milne

  Funny, Winnie The Pooh Inspirational, Winnie The Pooh Book

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.56, Egmont UK

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• There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, Purpose, Strange

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

  Dave Barry

  Falling In Love, Zero Gravity, Percent

  "Problems Of Utmost Gravity" by Dave Barry, articles.chicagotribune.com. March 15, 1998.

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• There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Motivation, Inspirational Life

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

  Ernest Greenwood

  Safety, Accidents Happen, Streets

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• I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Discovery, Salvation

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• The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

  Alan Coren

  Mean, Provocative, Policy

  The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions 'A Short History of Insurance'

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• A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

  Asger Jorn

  Train Of Thought, Creative, Unexpected

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• The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  John Updike

  Self, Creative, Use

  "Writers on Themselves: Magic, Working Secrets" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 1986.

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• At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fundamentals, Laying Down, Firsts

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.190

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