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Quotes About Accident

I flung the gun at another one of the monsters, missed, hit an elderly man in a wheelchair instead, toppling him over.
~ David Wong
I walked right into a girl, broadsided her, felled her like a tree. I saw, to my horror, that it was Jennifer Lopez.
~ David Wong
I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?
~ C. JoyBell C.
You may avoid the risk of a car accident if you avoid driving, but you will lose the joy and freedom of driving.
~ Debasish Mridha
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
~ Richard Leakey
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.
~ Ilya Prigogine
There was a 194-car crash in Los Angeles. Luckily the guy in the first car was still able to complete his cell phone call.
~ Jay Leno
He lacked any musicality, for example; that was a disappointment. He lacked a kind of easy friendliness he could see in other people. Finally, and especially after the accident, he lacked a sense of fully inhabiting his own life, as if he were still, somehow, tumbling through that tumbling air. On it swirled around him as he struggled to right himself, and sometimes fought a powerful urge for it to simply stop. That was the biggest deficit of all. That impacted everything.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
A fact is first an answer to a question. If Sartre had consulted psychologists before judging them in the light of his own genius, he would have learned that they do not wait on the accident but begin by setting themselves problems.
~ Jean Piaget
Why else do you think the world destroyed itself?' 'It was an accident!' 'Yes, and who caused the accident? Men!
~ Jean Ure
Batty had been blown up, drowned, smashed on the rocks, or some combination of the three. And it was all Skye's fault.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
The death for the driver was egregiously bad: being impaled is never anyone's exit of choice.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
All of the ways I am exactly like Bob Dylan is, one time a biking accident changed my life. Not a motorcycle accident, like in 1966 when Dylan crashed his Triumph Tiger on a mountain road in upstate New York, broke some bones, and went into seclusion. I was on a Schwinn Stingray, so I wasn't "riding in the classic sense; I was pedaling.
~ Jeff Tweedy
She stubbed out the butt on her clipboard, one marked by a variety of small black burn spots, and flicked it away heedlessly—beaning her production assistant in the side of the head in the process.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly
she flew over the handlebars head on into the license plate.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Oh, I got this the time I ran into the back of the bus.
~ Elizabeth Enright
She glanced again at Caliban as she said, "You and Daffodil were very brave." "And the best part, Mama," Indio said, tugging her hand to get her attention, "the best part is Caliban spoke. Did you hear him? He shouted my name!" "What?" Lily stared at Indio's filthy little face and then back up at Caliban. She absently noted that he had a bleeding scratch on his cheek. That shout right before the accident—had that been him?
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
No creo que yo sea autista porque Dios pensara que mis padres necesitaban un desafío o que yo necesitara un desafío. Creo que es como si yo fuera un bebé y me cayera una piedra encima y me rompiera la pierna. La causa habrá sido un accidente. Dios no ha impedido el accidente, pero tampoco lo ha provocado.
~ Elizabeth Moon
I knocked one of Tony's elbows out from under him so that his chin splashed into his coffee cup, and that ended that discussion.
~ Elizabeth Peters
For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn't be coincidence, would it?
~ Ali Smith
I didn't mean to be born.
~ Alice Notley
It is an accident that you are well-off, powerful, and content. Would I feel stronger if I saw you weak?
~ Alice Notley
Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
~ Alice Sebold