Accidents Quotes - Page 8

• The makeup person said oh my God what happened to you? I looked like I was in a car accident.

  Cheri Oteri

  Makeup, Car, Said

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• Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

  Renata Adler

  Important, Important Things

  Renata Adler (2013). “Pitch Dark”, p.151, New York Review of Books

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• I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!

  Edie Sedgwick

  Years, Two, One Day

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Law, Good Christian, Christianity

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.412, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Essence, Religion, Transcendentalism

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• Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

  Ben Vereen

  Fall, Thinking, Years

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• Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Alcohol, Drug

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• Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home: 17% of all accidents occur in the home. Do not walk on the streets or pavements: 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians. Do not travel by air, rail, or water: 16% of accidents happen on these. Only .001% of all deaths occur in worship services in church, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders. Hence the safest place for you to be at any time is at church!

  Mark Leslie

  Christian, Home, Air

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• Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  America, World, Modern

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• I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.

  Pauley Perrette

  School, College, Gone

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• No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will of an employer, and debarred by the accident of birth to both the enjoyments, and from the mental and moral advantages, which others inherit without exertion and independently of desert. That this is an evil equal to almost any of those against which mankind have hitherto struggles, the poor are not wrong in believing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Believe, Struggle, Law

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Socialism: Mill's Works”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design

  Steve Albini

  Design, Trying, Band

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• Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.

  John Berger

  Children, World, Young

  John Berger (2011). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.122, Vintage

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• This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

  Naoto Kan

  Japan, Nuclear, States

  "Kan: Japan on 'maximum alert' over nuke crisis", www.stripes.com. April 7, 2011.

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• The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

  Gordon Allport

  Dog, Offering, Long

  "A Psychological Interpretation". Book by Gordon Allport, p. 199, 1938.

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• I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Requirements, Computer

  Usenet article "s///e bizarreness", groups.google.com. January 4, 1991.

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• How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Communication, Childhood

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• You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Dream, Kind, Celebrate

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• Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.

  Richard Hugo

  Hard Work, Waiting, Lucky

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• Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summersday, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Fate, Long Ago

  "Tuck Everlasting". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.

  James Salter

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• I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

  Michael Crichton

  Blood, Drawing, Literature

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.25, Vintage

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• Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Jobs, Has Beens

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• Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Animal, Forests, Common

  Henry Walter Bates (1875). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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• THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Inspirational, Fitness, Kids

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