Accidents Quotes - Page 7

• Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

  Tyrone Power

  People, Car, Wish

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• When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

  Susan Sarandon

  Running, Car, Pleasant Surprises

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• You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Littles, Might

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• I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Thinking, Self, Somewhere Else

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.129, Three Rivers Press

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• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

  Eva Mendes

  Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

  Eva Mendes

  Opposites, Careers, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Thinking

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• When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong.
  In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain;
  more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

  Carole Bouquet

  Strong, Pain, Loss

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• My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

  Brad Meltzer

  Worst Moments, Perfect, Parent

  "‘Heroes For My Son’: The Day I Broke My Son’s Heart" by Brad Meltzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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• Yeah, I've mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay . I don't hate them, I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.

  Liam Gallagher

  Hate, Thinking, Wish

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• I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.

  Tony Stewart

  Office, Long, Facts

  "Grand jury declines to indict NASCAR's Tony Stewart", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner. Distance and deflection were carefully judged before firing. This is not something that comes by accident; only by experience can a pilot overcome feelings of panic. A thousand missions could be flown and be of no use if the pilot has not exchanged fire with the enemy.

  John Trevor Godfrey

  Distance, Fire, Feelings

  John Trevor Godfrey (1958). “The look of eagles”

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• Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Nuclear, Normal, Air Pollution

  Martin Cruz Smith (2013). “Wolves Eat Dogs”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

  Lou Gramm

  Sheep, Black, Ends

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• The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophical, Men, Squares

  "Review of Teilhard de Chardin's 'The Phenomenon of Man'". "Mind", Vol 70, pp. 99-105, 1961.

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• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

  Thomas Nagel

  Together, Example, Alternatives

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• I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

  Stephen Stills

  Children, Kids, College

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• Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

  Herbert Spencer

  Progress

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 1, ch. 2, 4

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• Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

  Lee Smolin

  People, Problem, Obsessed

  Lee Smolin (2007). “The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.

  Myla Goldberg

  Morning, Nice, Home

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• Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community, unfortunately, has done little to dispel. Happenstance usually plays a part, to be sure, but there is much more to invention than the popular notion of a bolt out of the blue. Knowledge in depth and in breadth are virtual prerequisites. Unless the mind is thoroughly charge beforehand, the proverbial spark of genius, if it should manifest itself, probably will find nothing to ignite.

  Paul Flory

  Blue, Views, Play

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• A lot happens by accident in poetry.

  Howard Nemerov

  Happens

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• With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Self Confidence, Balance, Should

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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• The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Three, Figures, Existence

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