Accidents Quotes - Page 35

• Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Character, Men, Becoming

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• I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds;
  I do not make the accident of birth
  The standard of their merit.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Judging, Deeds

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• There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perfection, Creation, Certain

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.234, Xist Publishing

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• Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Roots, People, Growth

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.262, Princeton University Press

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• In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile--movable.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• There is no such thing as an accident. It is all part of a master plan. Play your role as gracefully as you can and relax.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Play, Relax, Roles

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• Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

  Jean M. Auel

  War, Body, Mysterious

  Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.20, Bantam

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• An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Writing, People, Thrill

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• Excellence is never an accident.

  Jerold Panas

  Character, Excellence

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• Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, America

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• [writing to Stirling in 1740]
  ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they were shewing French gallantry to the natives' wives, who have murdered their servants destroyed their instruments and burnt their papers, the Gentlemen escaping narrowly themselves. What an ugly article this will make in a journal.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Writing, Escaping, Wife

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• Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

  Peter Thomas

  People, Effort, Arise

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and
  where perfect judgment would have advised against going?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Perfect, Pilots, Blame

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Passion, Mind, Increase

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• Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Jesus, Nice

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.35, SPCK

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• Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Mind, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.56

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• Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Presence Of Mind, People

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• When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  War, Tired, Enemy

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• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both
  better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Use, May

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.90, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Perfection, Parent

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• Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!

  Sefton Delmer

  Lying, Firsts, Used

  Sefton Delmer (1962). “Black Boomerang: An Autobiography”

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• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  Fetty Wap

  Eye, Littles, Glaucoma

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• When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.

  Neko Case

  Growing Up, Helping, Grows

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Thinking, Divine Order

  Interview with Ellsworth Kelly, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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