Accidents Quotes - Page 36

• Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

  Olympia Brown

  Fate, Majority, Mold

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• I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

  Helen Keller

  Views, Punishment, Overcoming

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• In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.

  Wayne Dyer

  Divine, Universe

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.186, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  "Pope Francis Against Rome". www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Beer, Crafts

  Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

  Wilford Brimley

  Might, Birth, Wells

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• The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.

  Tom Shippey

  Loyalty, Echoes, Filters

  Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

  Alan S. Kesselheim

  Mistake, Tragedy, Tipping

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• Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Lying, Taken, Night

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• Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

  Nick Cohen

  Shallow, Marxist, Late

  Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso

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• You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

  Jaden Smith

  School, Thinking, Car

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Helping, Happens, Things Happen

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

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• The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Hurt, Men, Essence

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the will, and afterwards by the injustice of Constantius, to expose his person and fame to the dangers of Imperial greatness; and to make himself accountable to the world and to posterity for the happiness of millions.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Philosophy, Greatness

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1005, e-artnow

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• Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

  Aristotle

  Government, Democracy, Oligarchy

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kind

  "Maskerade". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1995.

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• I cant sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. Im shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.

  Ryan Stiles

  Sprinkles, Remember, Stiles

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• There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

  Jack White

  Years, Car, Three

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• Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

  Mario Testino

  Embrace, Happens, Things Happen

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• You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

  Walter Scott

  Winter, Air, Forests

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.240

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• Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

  Jim Lee

  Creating, Creative, Happy Accidents

  "Why Jim Lee And Dan DiDio Decided To Reboot DC Comics [Video]". Interview with Kevin Ohannessian and Adam Barenblat, www.fastcompany.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Everybody thinks that 2-D is Damon, but none of the characters are based on any of us. 2-D is the classic stupid pretty boy singer. He's the fall guy, the stooge. Everyone takes the piss out of him. He had a car accident where he went through the windscreen and ended up with two bumps on his head. It knocked some cool into him

  Jamie Hewlett

  Stupid, Fall, Character

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• If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

  Mario Andretti

  Car, Driving, Neighbor

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• There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

  Karen Essex

  Desire, World, Entanglement

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• We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

  Bob Ross

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Happy Accidents

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