Accidents Quotes - Page 31

• It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Men, Blood, Making Love

  Phyllis Chesler, Emily Jane Goodman (1976). “Women, money & power”, William Morrow & Co

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• Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Coffee, Land, Towns

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Fascination, Looks, Looking Good

  1990 In the NewYork Times, 7 Jan.

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• Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

  Herbert Simon

  Mind, Enlightenment, Accidents Happen

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• Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

  Faith Sullivan

  Suicide, Home, People

  Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.296, Broadway Books

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• The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Risk, Drivers, Ought

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• A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

  Mike Svob

  Order, Doe, Elements

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• Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

  Harold Percival

  Thinking, Rooms, World

  Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.48, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

  Adrian Bejan

  Discovery, Creative, Serendipity

  "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics". Book by Adrian Bejan and Gilbert W. Merkx, 2007.

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• Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

  Pete Docter

  Ideas, Encounters, Stories

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• I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Community, Tvs

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• Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

  Wilford Brimley

  Might, Birth, Wells

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• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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• To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Self, Intellectual, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Determined, Moments, Reviews

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.190

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• The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Hurt, Men, Essence

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

  David Morrissey

  Thinking, Ideas, Interesting

  "Interview: ‘Walking Dead’ star David Morrissey discusses The Governor". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 28, 2012.

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• Like children in a schoolyard, they want to know what was my accident, how much did it hurt, and what did I look like afterward. ... I am not the only person I have known who has encountered emotional sightseers.

  Natalie Kusz

  Hurt, Children, Emotional

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• The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Coffee, White, Numbers

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the will, and afterwards by the injustice of Constantius, to expose his person and fame to the dangers of Imperial greatness; and to make himself accountable to the world and to posterity for the happiness of millions.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Philosophy, Greatness

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1005, e-artnow

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• Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

  Aristotle

  Government, Democracy, Oligarchy

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.

  Irving Fisher

  War, Fall, Discovery

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• The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kind

  "Maskerade". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1995.

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• I cant sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. Im shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.

  Ryan Stiles

  Sprinkles, Remember, Stiles

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• Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

  Deb Caletti

  Queens, Book, Adults

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