Accidents Quotes - Page 23

• By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Views, Culture, Birth

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• Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

  Will Rogers

  People, Nuisance, Causes

  Will Rogers (1974). “The Illiterate Digest”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Men, Events, Earth

  Eugene O'Neill (1987). “Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book”, G. Narr Verlag

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• There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident.

  Betty Comden

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Decision, Enlightenment, Grows

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• Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Engineering, Design, Viruses

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

  Beatrix Potter

  Father, Garden, Pie

  The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)

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• I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

  David Hare

  Writing, Play, Reason

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.

  Paul Budnitz

  Showing Up, Minutes, Ifs

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• I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.

  Colin Baker

  Years, Space, People

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

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• I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

  Leslie Banks

  Hurt, Children, Home

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• It's not by accident that this has not been resolved in 50 years, but I believe this is the best chance we will have for a long time for there to be a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

  Sandy Berger

  Believe, Israel, Agreement

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2000.

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• One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up

  Shelley Berkley

  Years, Damage, Causes

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• You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

  Jeff Gordon

  Race, Lap, Closing

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• Each of us comes into this world separately, one by one. This is not an accident. I think it's the Lord's way of reminding us of the infinite worth of each soul.

  Dwan J. Young

  Thinking, Soul, World

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• Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

  Jamais Cascio

  Greed, May, Resilient

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• When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn and you can't step back. All you can do is keep moving forward and remember what you've learned.

  Ingrid Law

  Moving, Kissing, Firsts

  Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.135, Penguin

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• Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

  Gary Ryan

  Persistence, Goal, Effort

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• The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

  Austin Farrer

  Notion, Richness

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• The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.

  Martin Caidin

  Running, Parent, Sound

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• Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rain, Clouds, People

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.61

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• In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.

  Paul Valery

  Eye, Reflection, Irritation

  "Collected Works", vol. 1,("Recollection"), 1972.

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• You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Growth, Enlightenment

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• The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

  Bill Vaughan

  May, Plans, Humans

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• If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

  Bill Vaughan

  Couple, House, May

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