Accidents Quotes - Page 9

• We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Running, Knows, Seeing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

  Alice Hamilton

  Illinois, Occupation, Disease

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Character, Math

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• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

  Isabel Paterson

  School, Omission, Long

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers

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• Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Unique, Support, Atheism

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• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.

  Isabel Paterson

  Past, Direct Action, Omission

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers

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• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

  Isabel Paterson

  Omission, People, Lapses

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers

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• Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Sound, Rhyming, Uniforms

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• We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

  Francis Parkman

  Horse, Animal, Men

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.8, VM eBooks

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• Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!

  William Carlos Williams

  Light, Ideas, House

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.263, New Directions Publishing

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• Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

  Charles Simmons

  Vanity, Use, Care

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.541

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• How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Rain, Destiny, Tree

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• Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Worry

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• An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.

  Unknown

  Beautiful, Art, Emotional

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• We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Judging, Judgement

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• In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Earth, Ruins

  Barack Obama's speech on Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2012.

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• I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

  Jack Anderson

  Hurt, Light, Order

  "Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Dies at 83". www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2005.

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• Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Mother, Falling In Love, Hurt

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• A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Media, Nuclear, Submarines

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• That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them yourself. That way you're in control of the situation.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cute, Mean, Way

  P. J. O'Rourke (1995). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P. J. O'Rourke”, p.143, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Gratitude, May

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• Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Kitchen, Half

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• The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Taken, Mind

  "The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating What You Want to Create". Book by Robert Fritz, p. 181, 1984.

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• So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

  Hector Bianciotti

  Inspirational, Egotism, Catastrophe

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• It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

  Mary McAleese

  Years, Progress, Generations

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