Best safety & accidents Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.”

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Author:Li Yizhong

“I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.”

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Author:Nobu Matsuhisa

“Don't learn safety by accident.”

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Author:Jerry Smith

“That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.”

“After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.”

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Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested as a likely cause of the disaster. When these modifications are completed and have been satisfactorily flight tested, the Board sees no reason why passenger services should not be resumed.”

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Author:John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

“You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.”

“Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.”

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Author:Jerome F. Lederer

“Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.”

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Author:Jerome F. Lederer

“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.”

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Author:Sally Ride

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

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Author:J. G. Ballard

“Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.”

“Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.”

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Author:Ernest Greenwood

“Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid”

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Author:Jay Leno

“When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.”

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Author:Edward Smith

“We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."”

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Author:Federico Pena

“On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.”

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Book:The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus

Source: The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus

“Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.”

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Author:Bill Lipinski

“It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.”

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Author:Casey Stoner

“Enjoy without injury, live without loss.”

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