Accidents Quotes - Page 25

• Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

  Cesare Pavese

  Destiny, Way, Mess

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

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• The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about a better society which should then improve education, and so on indefinitely. Correct education could not come into existence until an ideal state existed, and after that education would be devoted simply to its conservation. For the existence of this state he was obliged to trust to some happy accident by which philosophic wisdom should happen to coincide with possession of ruling power in the state.

  John Dewey

  Plato, Philosophy, Would Be

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.86, Xist Publishing

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• Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

  Allan Bloom

  Practice, Political, Tools

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 281, 1990.

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• Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Husband, Children, Teenager

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• You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Daughter, Suicide, Brother

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• Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.

  Gerry Spence

  Kings, Party, People

  "From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.

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• Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has contributed significantly to the problems. The design team or installers did not pay sufficient attention to the needs of those who would be using the equipment, so confusion or error was almost unavoidable.

  Donald A. Norman

  Team, Errors, Confusion

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman. Introduction to the 2002 Edition, p. ix, 2002.

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• The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

  Tibor Fischer

  Doors, People, Bells

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

  Gloria Estefan

  Night, Awards, Albums

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• [After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

  Gloria Estefan

  Recovery, Doctors, Poor

  "The Gayle King Show", October 23, 2006.

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• Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

  Brian Aldiss

  Men, World, Made

  "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.

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• But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Chance

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene 4, l. 548

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• I had teeth that stuck out so far, I used to eat other kids' candy bars by accident.

  Rita Rudner

  Kids, Teeth, Bars

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• To the eye of failure success is an accident.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eye, Success Failure

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life—life's "experiences"—are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

  Mark Twain

  Experience, Wish, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.181, 谷月社

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• Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Causes, Chance

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1996). “Bulletin”

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• Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Numbers, Asking

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.140

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• And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Hazards, Charity

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Second Part, Chapter 30, 1651.

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• Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

  James Ellis

  Luck, Credit, Action

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• He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.

  Maimonides

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.269, Courier Corporation

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• First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus.

  Maimonides

  Heaven, Firsts, Chance

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.454, Aeterna Press

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• Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

  Anthony Trollope

  Devil, Noble, May

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “Phineas Finn: The Irish Member”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

  Anthony Trollope

  Law, Littles, Too Much

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.3085, e-artnow

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Cancer

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