Quotes About Accident

she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

Hold up. How do you accidentally have sex with somebody?" Adina scoffed. "Is she all, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't see your penis there'?

What happened to the winner Adina asked. She tripped. And the first runner-up? Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. She tripped, too.

My head kinda hurts," Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes.

An accident of birth had signed her death warrant. He could mark her name off his to-do list.

someone, probably Heidi, ran into the coffee

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

The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Mr. Barbecue-Smith was tossed to the floor.

It was pure privilege that determined where so many of us ended up in life, Isabel reflected; it was nothing to do with merit, it was privilege. Or, putting it another way, it was a matter of accident, or luck.

He had expected, at minimum, to be able to examine tread marks and a trail of crushed vegetation and small trees the trailer had surely sheared on its slide down the hill, like a butter knife of the gods.

When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

I always think everything is going to be my last job so every single day is a gift. This whole life is an accident for me.

No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

the start of a new era, in which the course of history might be made predictable and a government established that would be ruled not by accident and force but by reason and choice. The origins of that idea, and its fate, are the story of American history.

Can a political society really be governed by reflection and election, by reason and truth, rather than by accident and violence, by prejudice and deceit?

In 1787, then, when Alexander Hamilton asked "whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force," that was the kind of question a scientist asks before beginning an experiment.

It has been argued that the spontaneous emergence of life on Earth would have been such a rare event that it is the equivalent of a strong wind blowing through a junkyard and, from the materials there, creating an entire jumbo jet, by accident. That, the argument goes on, is how likely it would be for organic molecules to fit together through chance alone in just the right combination to make even the most basic life forms—quite an amazing level of coincidence

Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of "Let's just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.