Accidents Happen Quotes

• Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Favors

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• Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Needs, Littles, Madness

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• Accidents happen all the time.

  Daniel Handler

  Happens, Accidents

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• Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mistake, Best Of Me, Happens

  "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 13, 2011.

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• In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

  John Hench

  Morning, Play, Cartoon

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• Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

  Ernest Greenwood

  Safety, Streets, Highways

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Believe, History

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper, September 15, 1992.

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

  Herbert Simon

  Mind, Enlightenment, Prepared

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• Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

  Daniel Handler

  Inspirational Life, Live Life, Adversity

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• I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.

  Joe Lieberman

  Mean, Trying, Oil Spill

  "Lieberman on Gulf Spill: “Accidents Happen” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Tragedies happen, accidents happen.

  Sarah Hanson-Young

  Tragedy, Happens, Accidents

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• Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

  Willa Cather

  People, World, Ugly

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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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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• Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

  James Belushi

  Rip, Loss, Compassion

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• For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pregnancy, Birth, Joyful

  Sheila Kitzinger (1990). “The Experience of Childbirth”, Viking Press

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• The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Catholic, Special

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• I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Party, People, Forever

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• I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

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• We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

  James Hillman

  Oddities, Raises Questions, Curiosity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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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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• I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.

  Abbi Glines

  Thinking, Shine On, Shining

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable.

  Zhou Shengxian

  Aftermath, Plant, Unimaginable

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• Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions. The more you know about a book, the freer you can be to fool around. The less you know, the tighter you get.

  John Irving

  Believe, Book, Taken

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• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Past

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