Quotes About Accident

el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar.

Just to show you how far I was from predicting the accident or suspecting that it could occur-even though, except for Dolores Driscoll, who drove the bus, I was surely the person in town closest to the event, the only eyewitness, you might say-at the moment it occurred I was thinking of fucking Risa Walker.

for. One of its headlamps was broken and its chrome rim

My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident.

A few seconds later, my father broke his big toe; but his accident was a mere trifle when set beside what had befallen me in that benighted moment, because thanks to the occult tyrannies of those blandly saluting clocks I had been mysteriously handcuffed to history, my destinies indissolubly chained to those of my country.

Stories should be like life, slightly frayed at the edges, full of loose ends and lives juxtaposed by accident rather than some grand design. Most of life has no meaning--so it must surely be a distortion of life to tell tales in which every single element is meaningful?

Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.

Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it's just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.

It [success] is really by mistake.

What is it? said Jeanne, when Diana was gone; you look rather gloomy. Why, yes. What has happened? Oh, mon Dieu! an accident. To you? Not precisely to me, but to a person who was near me. Who was it? The person I was walking with. M. de Monsoreau? Alas! yes; poor dear man. What has happened to him? I believe he is dead. Dead! cried Jeanne, starting back in horror. Just so. He who was here just now talking… Yes, that is just the cause of his death - he talked too much.

You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running

You're better than this," Franny said. "Am I? I see things I can't change, Franny. When I drink I stop the visions. It was in pieces but it's coming together in one picture. And lately, what I've been seeing is an accident. A bad one. And soon.

You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running.

Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose to tell it, even to one person at a time.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love. And people start to love you back, I bet, I say. They do, he say, surprise.

think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.

Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

Just give the switch a quick flick. First time I turned it on, I managed to touch the wire instead of the switch and got lit up well enough I damn near sucked my panties up through my asshole. I could taste them in my mouth.

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

There's no such thing as chance;And what to us seems merest accidentSprings from the deepest source of destiny.