Accidents Quotes - Page 39

• So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Pain, Birth, Geography

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

  Carrie Fisher

  Actors, Chance, Yeah

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, People, Car

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge."

  Marie Curie

  Glasses, Evil, Annoyed

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• Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Believe, Meat

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

  Phil Plait

  Stuff, Sometimes, Figures

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• It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

  H. G. Wells

  Return, Succeed, Going Out

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.13237, Delphi Classics

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• Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Causes, Backseat

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• Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

  George Will

  Football, Games, Long

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• Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Two, Duration

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.375, Vintage

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• Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence sucess is a matter of choice and not chance.

  Shiv Khera

  Attitude, Choices, Sucess

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• Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

  Nancy Leveson

  Requirements, Software, Flawed

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• I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Mad, Trying

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• It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.

  Enoch Powell

  Taken, Decision, Liberty

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• The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.

  Christian Horner

  Important, Safe, Today

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• There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Hands, Recognise

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• All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Birth, Tradition

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Cancer, Car, Death Of A Loved One

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• Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

  Roger Scruton

  Ignorance, Opinion, Bernard Shaw

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• There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Would Be, Telephones, Teach

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• A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

  David Einhorn

  Car, Risk, Doe

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• I'm looking forward to Phoenix. I ran well there last year in the Nationwide Series, and it was one of the tracks I made four Sprint Cup starts at last season. In the Cup race last year, I had a good run going for it being my first time there in a Cup car, and unfortunately got damage from an accident. It's not a restrictor plate race, so this will be the first time this season that I will run a lot of laps in practice. It's also the first race for the new qualifying format, so it will be interesting to see how that works out. Overall, I just want to have a solid run in the BRANDT Chevy.

  Justin Allgaier

  Running, Practice, Phoenix

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• We ran well there in the November 2012, my first race with (Tony) Gibson (as crew chief). Unfortunately, we haven't left there without a torn up race car. We got caught up in accidents in November of 2012 and then again in November 2013. We cut a tire and crashed last spring, so it'd be nice to have a good clean run with the GoDaddy car. I like Phoenix and Gibson has won there a few times. Hopefully our luck will turn around and we can have a good smooth run and get back on track.

  Danica Patrick

  Running, Nice, Spring

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• A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just do it. I believe in happy accidents and I'm not necessarily into actors getting the dialogue exactly as I wrote it; I'm much more into them understanding the motivations and have it come out in a natural way, and maybe catch something that I didn't expect.

  Storm Saulter

  Motivation, Believe, Understanding

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, People, World

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