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Quotes About Accident

Serendipity (n.) finding something good without looking for it
~ Dictionary
The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice.
~ Dodinsky
Do I have a concussion?" "I don't know," she says. "Is my nose broken?" "And you have a concussion," she says.
~ Don Winslow
A terrified man can have an accident much more readily and much more quickly than a calm man.
~ Donald E. Westlake
As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
~ Ryan Giggs
The way my luck is at the moment," said Polly, "I probably will get a tiny bit of money back, and as I leave the bank after picking it up, a bolt of lightning will come out of the sky and set it on fire. Then a piano will fall on my head and knock me down a manhole.
~ Jenny Colgan
Hang on," said Nina, standing up and going inside. She came back with a small book with a woman standing on the cover. "Here." Lissa picked it up. "I got two copies by accident," said Nina. "You can have it." "The Accidental Tourist," read Lissa. "What's it about?" "Healing," said Nina. "Best book ever written on the subject.
~ Jenny Colgan
I didn't fall for you, you tripped me!
~ Jenny Han
She'd mopped the floors that morning; they were shiny and everything smelled like lemons and clean house. The phone was ringing in the kitchen, she came running in to answer it, and she slipped. She hit her head on the floor, and she was unconscious, but then she woke up and she was fine. That was her lucid interval. That's what they call it. A little while later she said she had a headache, she went to lie down on the couch, and then she didn't wake up.
~ Jenny Han
Reed: "What's up?" Vanessa: "There must be an accident or something." Reed: "I'm the accident." Vanessa: "I couldn't agree more." Reed: "What I meant was, those people out there are waiting for me.
~ Jenny O'Connell
My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing. Her friend, who is five, told her to jump off of it. I promise nothing will happen, she said. But why did she promise that? she wails later at the hospital.
~ Jenny Offill
You are significantly more likely to die in a car accident, especially if you fail to wear a seat belt, than to be attacked by ISIS. Wear your seat belt
~ Jessica Stern
Passengers were crushed by descending boats. Swimmers were struck by chairs, boxes, potted plants, and other debris falling from the decks high above. And then there were those most ill-starred of passengers, who had put on their life preservers incorrectly and found themselves floating with their heads submerged, legs up, as in some devil's comedy.
~ Erik Larson
Churchill had a formula for family size as well. Four children was the ideal number: "One to reproduce your wife, one to reproduce yourself, one for the increase in population, and one in case of accident.
~ Erik Larson
This is really disturbing. I think I'm being scarred as we speak. It's like paranormal porn. Alexis did look a little pale. Do you want me to turn it off? No, are you kidding? I have to see what happens. It's like a car accident, but with tongue. You don't want to look, but you have to.
~ Erin McCarthy
I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.
~ Erin McCarthy
A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It's one thing to kill someone and not leave evidence or hide the body so it's never found, but to be able to murder someone and have everyone think it was an accident of nature? That's some kind of genius.
~ Andrew Mayne
He man in a sheriff's deputy uniform ran past the corner and tripped on the bat.
~ Andrew Mayne
I didn't like my hand exploding.
~ Andrew Rowe
Are all stories about the Law of Surprise myths?' 'Yes. It's hard to call an accident destiny.' 'But you witchers do not stop searching?' 'No, we don't. But it's senseless. Nothing has any point.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
S? takie zbiegi okoliczno?ci, które przypominaj? wyrafinowany plan.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Not to mention the fact that it was making horrible dents in her best Chinese carpet.
~ Angie Sage
I cannot stand the sight of blood, and once when there was an automobile accident right in front of my eyes, I wheeled round and fled. Yet, I always liked grand destruction. While trembling at the shells and incendiary bombs, I was at the same time tremendously excited at such frenzied annihilation; and yet I believe that I never loved and longed for human beings more than at that time.
~ Ango Sakaguchi