Best Accidents Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 18

“I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.”

Author:Louis Nizer

“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.”

Children Country Today Parent Millions Environment Periods Drug Gun Accidents Alcohol Owners Gun Control Misuse Undisciplined Gun Owners Gun Safety Shooting Guns Bad Parent

Author:Ted Nugent

“Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.”

Wanted Accidents Blueprints

Author:Gary Numan

“Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.”

Law Science Universe Pure Accidents Physics Divinity Laws Of Physics

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.”

Made Hard Decision Fate Terrible Management Accidents Corporate Borders Slides Demise Slow Motion Booksellers

Author:Susan Orlean

“Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.”

Thinking Spiritual Spirit Purpose Watches Accidents Formation Spiritual Formation

Author:John Ortberg

“I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.”

Way Giving Believe May Joy I Believe Records Return Satisfaction Accidents Gods Will This Life Believe In God Protected Up To You Without God

Author:Joel Osteen

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

Birth Thousand Accidents Composer Composing Music

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“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.”

Want Dies Car Accidents Glorious Wanting To Die Waterfalls Car Accident

Author:River Phoenix

“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”

Believe Art Artist History Don't Believe Accidents Encounters Accidents Happen

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.”

Thinking Made Two Important Flow Accidents Factors Made It Revolutionary Introducing Traffic Lanes Mph

Author:John Prescott

“Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.”

Men Trying Change Impossible Equality Accidents

Author:J. B. Priestley

“I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.”

Accidents Clumsy

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.”

Years Stories Wanted Artist Actors Produce Accidents Candidates Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Robert Redford

“Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.”

Years Art Moments Happens Film Form Actors Decision Results Mistake Directors Accidents Movie Imperfect Filmmaking Great Film Accidents Happen Mistakes Happen

Author:Jason Reitman

“Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.”

Acting Responsibility Talent Accidents Genes Snape

Author:Alan Rickman

“After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.”

Space Gone Safety Accidents Nasa Space Shuttle Workplace Safety Shuttle Program Space Shuttle Challenger

Author:Sally Ride

“No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.”

Thinking Space Risk Program Prepared Accidents Astronaut Space Shuttle High Risk Shuttle Program

Author:Sally Ride

“The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.”

Space Accidents Rockets Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Challenger

Author:Sally Ride

“Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.”

Littles Helping Accidents Folly

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

Ifs Way War Happens Political Politics Accidents Conspiracy Antiwar Conspiracy Theory Head Of State

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.”

People Knows Important Country Reason House Members Accidents Our Country Senate

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.”

Ifs World Writing Different Ends Sometimes Stories Together Given Ability Conflict Difficulty Accidents

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”

Children Mother Results Race Ignorance Mom Foundation Fruit Population Motherhood Accidents Yearning Being A Mom

Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.”

People Sleep Blessing Accidents Cruelty Bored Our Time Boredom Idle Idleness Preoccupation Idle Time

Author:Renata Adler

“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”

Seems Spiritual Spirituality Chance Destiny Source Spring Accidents Our Destiny Synchronicity My Destiny Fate Destiny Fate And Destiny Life Destiny Life And Destiny Destiny And Choice Life Fate

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.”

People Needs Happens Simple Pay Accidents Covered

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.”

“It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.”

Ifs Happens Risk Serious Lucky Seasons Accidents

Author:Ayrton Senna

“[talking about the race at Imola circuit] There are no small accidents on this circuit.”

Accidents Circuits

Author:Ayrton Senna

“The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.”

Moments Shining Accidents Communist Regimes Heroism Shining Down

Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.”

Law Values Social Accidents Uncertainty Immense Unfortunate Social Values

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.”

Accidents Novelists

Author:Wole Soyinka

“The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.”

Novel Accidents Novelists Aggravation Be Considerate

Author:Wole Soyinka

“But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.”

Thinking Mean Life Is Guy Answers Results Faults Accidents Historian Conspiracy Salt Angle

Author:Oliver Stone

“When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.”

Said Done Whole Risk Cost Illusion Series Accidents Gas Pollution Reliance Pumps Said And Done Congestion

Author:James Surowiecki

“Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.”

Love Mean Age Together Fall Opportunity Cases Disease Accidents Sovereignty Unconditional Alzheimer Alzheimer's Life Together Sacrificial Love Sovereignty Means

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.”

Men Believe Christian Atheism Atheist Accidents Anti Atheist

Author:Francis Thompson

“There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.”

Impossible Car Type Limits Method Train Democratic Speed Accidents Application Passengers Brake

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

Inspirational Success Science Names Progress Evolution Smart Economics Luck Accidents Invention Good Luck Inventor Bad Luck Inventions And Inventors Saying Good Luck Great Inventors

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.”

Risk Team Fit Mountain Prepared Rewards Accidents Climbs Risk And Reward

Author:Mark Udall

“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.”

“I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.”

Ifs Stills Seems Horse Accidents Boat Faster Excitement Thank God Skis Shiver Wilder

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.”

World Actors Comedy Musical Accidents Teenager

Author:Christopher Walken

“There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.”

Fate Accidents

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.”

Trying Humans Environment Healthy Limits Accidents Make Sense Passages Passage Of Time

Book:Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

Source: Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

“Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.”

Firsts Looks May Real Matter Evolution Prove Research Function Dues Accidents Odd Outcomes Phenomenon Irrelevant Biologist

Author:E. O. Wilson

“U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.”

Knows Writing Helping Seems Song Accidents

Author:Bono

Accidents Quotes

Related topics

Accidents Quotes