Accident Quotes - page 2

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. (Eric Roberts)

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

Lou Gramm

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds 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

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

Vic Morrow

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Vincent Canby

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

River Phoenix

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

Dakota Fanning

Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

David Guterson

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

David Zindell

First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus.

Maimonides

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. (Pelé)

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

David Lloyd George

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

J. G. Ballard

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

Arno Allan Penzias

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.

Alexander Hamilton

I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

Kate Beckinsale

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

William Morris

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G. K. Chesterton

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

Gloria Estefan

[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK. (Gloria Estefan)

To the eye of failure success is an accident.

Ambrose Bierce

ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.

Ambrose Bierce

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

Gene Roddenberry

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

Sri Aurobindo

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