Accidents Quotes - Page 16

• Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

  Mike Figgis

  Drama, Film

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• High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Ancestry, Birth, Virtue

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• Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Anxiety, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.67, BookBaby

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• It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.

  Casey Stoner

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

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• It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

  William Shakespeare

  Suicide, Deeds, Ends

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Action, Natural

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.567, Library of America

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• Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

  Charles Dickens

  Family, Philosophy, Character

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4671, Delphi Classics

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• What men call accident is God's own part.

  Philip James Bailey

  Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.82

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• What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Heaven, Made, Happened

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• The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

  Timothy Keller

  Looks, Calling, Way

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.249, Penguin

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• Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist.

  Aviva Chomsky

  Country, Rights, Law

  Aviva Chomsky (2007). “They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration”, p.184, Beacon Press

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• That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Achieve, Effects

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• So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Chance, Daily Life, Whimsical

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• Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

  John Cheever

  Beautiful, Children, Men

  John Cheever (2016). “The Jewels of the Cabots”, p.13, Vintage

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• One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Two, Age

  Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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• It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Justice, Balance

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Lord Jim: Conrad's Collections”, p.191, 谷月社

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• No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

  James Bryce

  Men, Careers, Political

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

  John Steinbeck

  Benefits, Speech, Bread

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.63, Penguin

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• The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

  Wallace Stegner

  Life, Errors, Dubious

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

  George Mikes

  Preparation, Buying, Firsts

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• The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Wise, World, Shifting

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.

  Diana Trilling

  Pain, Design, Attention

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

  Hafez

  Running, Army, Chance

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

  William Saroyan

  Dirty, People, Comedian

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• No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

  Georges Duhamel

  Errors, Doubt, Truth Is

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