“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.” WellsSelfUseCreativeThousandMercyVictimAccidentsPresentationActualityCreative Writers Author:John Updike
“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .” IfsLooksReasonPastSocialCausesResultsRaceBehindsClassPsychologyPerspectiveEconomicsPrejudiceVictimGenderAccidentsNo ReasonUpbringingCosmologySociological Author:James Hillman
“Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.” ShowsGivenTerribleVictimProfoundAccidentsTerroristIntenseTragicSolidarityProposeCondemnationTerrorist AttacksMadridRevulsion Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
“Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.” MightCasesGenerationsCarCitizensInvolvedFameDoctorsVictimMedicineMereLeavingAccidentsDrivenDrivingTreatedDrunkNeighborhoodItalianEnginesPrincessGlobalizationRoyaltyTunnelsWhiskeyMotorcycleDutchEgyptianPaparazziScotchDianaCar AccidentForensicsBelgiansDrunk DrivingScotch WhiskeyCanvassing Author:Mark Riebling
“Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.” PeopleAnswersWonderClearViolenceVictimIntuitionAccidentsCleverEngagedDefiance Book:The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
“I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.” VictimSeriesAccidentsFortunate Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim.” YearsHumansBigsHuman BeingsResultsYears AgoVictimAccidentsDrivenBillionsBangs Author:James Hillman
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.” VictimSeriesAccidentsInsightful Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.” EvilVictimActiveAccidentsAttractiveForbiddenTabooUnspeakableAccomplices Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.” SaidTwoEvilSidesMistakeFireYouthVictimAccidentsSavedBurningMaking MistakesSpidersFireflyI Make MistakesMinstrelsArsonists Author:James Thurber
“The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.” PeopleIfsStillsDifferencesLinesGoneForeverAliveVictimAccidents Book:The Tenth Circle: A Novel Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel
“Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents expect to die? They took life for granted, as we do. How often do we hear stories of people whom we know, or even friends, who died unexpectedly? We don't even have to be ill to die: Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next.” PeopleKnowsWellsStoriesBodyDeathOrderDiesFallNextBreakDyingCarTelevisionOne DaySickDiedDown AndVictimIllAccidentsNewspapersGrantedPlanesCrashGlancesBreaking DownCar AccidentPlane CrashesLife For Granted Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.” LiteratureSawsBloodVictimAccidentsDrawingSurgeryEmergenciesDrawing Blood Book:Travels Source: Travels
“I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of facts. Armed citizens deter far more crimes than the police, and far more lives are saved by the intended victim being armed than are lost in firearm accidents.” KnowsWantFactsLightLawLostCrimeCitizensArgumentPoliceVictimPopulationAccidentsSavedAbidingFirearmsArmed Citizens Author:Paul Craig Roberts