Accidents Quotes - Page 11

• It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

  Gianfranco Fini

  Coincidence, Circumstances, Series

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• The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Three, Lasts

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• We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.

  Price Pritchett

  Strong, Achievement, Excellence

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• The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

  Timothy Leary

  Responsibility, Brain, Machines

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• It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

  Nick Bantock

  Foundation, Nasty, Absence

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• Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.

  Jack Benny

  Happened

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• A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Light, Strange, Consideration

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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• (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

  Alexander Fleming

  Discovery, Triumph, Problem

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• Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

  Mary Antin

  World, May, Liable

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.

  Rachael Ray

  Believe, Happy Life, Opportunity

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• If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Would Be, Tissues

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1949*). “War and peace: a novel”

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• It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Years, Want, Today

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• There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

  Francois Mauriac

  Reading, Choices, Source

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• I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Gambling, Track, Way

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• You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Fate, Breathing

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• Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sports, Writing, Alive

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• Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Law, Evil

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• People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People, Trying, Automobile

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.46, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  Olivier Martinez

  Stars, Years, Car

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

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• Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.

  Rolf Potts

  Falling In Love, Quality, Vivid

  Rolf Potts (2003). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Everything in the universe has a purpose. There are no misfits, there are no freaks, there are no accidents. There are only things we don't understand.

  Marlo Morgan

  Purpose, Freak, Misfits

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• Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

  Tina Fey

  Mean, Discovery, Peanut Butter

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

  Clark Gable

  Stars, Eight, Wind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Race

  "On the Road with Barack Obama". www.essence.com. December, 16, 2009.

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• It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.

  Michael Palin

  Suicide, Baby, War

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