Quotes About Accident

remembered to use the hand brakes I hit a tree and took an awful spill.

we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.

Leeuwenhoek himself occasionally got carried away with his enthusiasms. In one of his least successful experiments13 he tried to study the explosive properties of gunpowder by observing a small blast at close range; he nearly blinded himself in the process.

They are, reluctantly or enthusiastically, accepting the idea that humans are as much an accident of nature as a product of orderly development." But

When more than one teenager is in a car, for instance, the risk of an accident multiplies by 400 percent.

The best indicator of personal risk is whether you have fallen much before. Accident proneness is a slightly controversial area among stair-injury epidemiologists, but it does seem to be a reality. About four persons in ten injured in a stair fall have been injured in a stair fall before.

Phineas Gage was packing dynamite into a rock and it exploded prematurely

ONE OF THE THINGS that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself. Recently, in France, I was hit square on the head by an automatic parking barrier, something I don't think I could have managed in my younger, more alert years.

As late as 1921, twenty-seven people perished in a stove fire on a train near Philadelphia.

You trip over a word while carrying a tray of vocabulary out to the pool only to discover that broken glass is a good topic.

I can see one of them clearly now, walking along with a newspaper tucked under his arm. he has cut himself shaving and a bit of tissue with a circle of blood is stuck to his cheek

When they jumped down on the tracks, stretched their limbs, picked flowers, and took a little run, they all had the feeling that the place had just emerged only thanks to the stop, and that the swampy meadow with its knolls, the wide river, with a beautiful house and a church on the high bank opposite, would not be there had it not been for the accident that had taken place.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.

What I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal. When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident of a series of accidents can balance it.

When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident or a series of accidents can balance it.

I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year. After all I am alive only by accident.

There are a few times when the songs that are written, the poems that are written, the plays that are written, come alive. By accident you fall onto a stage-set put aside for a tragedy for the lesser gods, and you utter words that were in the script written in the leaves and in the grass for some heroic cast.

A curse is like a child, formed To grow to maturity: Accident is design And design is accident In a cloud of unknowing.

While trying to extricate his car from the collision, Mr. Piper reversed into a shop-window. When challenged, Mr. Piper said: "I thought it was all open country about here

There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize.

Does she ever get sick from eating human food? Kaddar watched as the dragon managed to dump half the water down her throat and half all over herself. Daine smiled. She never gets sick from anything, Once she ate a box of myrrh. She was only three months old. I thought every little accident she had would harm her for life. She didn't get sick? She burped smoke for a week, that's all.

And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.

You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

Die Schaulustigen, denen es egal war, was sie begafften. Einen Unfall. Einen Amoklauf. Einen zu Tode gelangweilten Filmstar.