Quotes About Accident

I actually crashed the car I learned to drive on. It was a friend of mine's car.

Hotel Waldhaus We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even spoiled Nietzsche for us. Even after they had had a fatal car accident and had been laid out in the church in Sils, we still hated them.

Another linguistic accident: an unholy marriage of Greek terminology filtered through Latin. That sort of thing begets monsters.

The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of day left behind by accident, dusk having closed in elsewhere.

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, and history of geography.

Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, history of geography.

He saw the fireball coming, bouncing on the potholes, trailing smoke and sparks and the flames blown back like wings, disjointed reflections leaping along the shop windows. It veered, struck a parked car and overturned in front of the building, one wheel spinning and flames through the spokes, blazing arms rising in the fighting posture of the burned.

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again.

It was so clearly present that there was no necessity to allude to it, this sorry, complicated past, with all its confusions and misunderstandings and mistakes. It was as real and vivid and present as the memory of an automobile accident in the casualty ward where the victims are being brought back to life.

If you're going to stop a band playing every time some one has an accident, you'll lead a very strenuous life.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Instead, he slammed the throttle, gunning Sewee in a tight arc toward the strange glow. Chance's arms pinwheeled as the boat accelerated beneath him. He toppled backward onto Shelton, who heroically tried to break his fall. "Ugh!" Shelton lay on his back, pancaked by the much larger boy.

Rubbing Lamps Things besides Aladdin's and the golden cave fish's lamps grant wishes. In fact, most lamps aren't lamp- shaped and happen by accident: an ordinary knob goes lambent as you twist or a cloth turns to silver mesh against a dish- something so odd and filled with promise for a minute that you spend your only wish wishing someone else could see it.

He'd been hit by a car, knocked off his bike. At the funeral the vicar had called it an "accident". But somehow the word wasn't enough. It wasn't big enough, powerful enough - didn't mean enough. He hadn't spilled a cup of tea, he hadn't tripped over his own feet. He'd had the life smashed out of him. It felt like there should be a whole new word invented just to describe it.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

He fell ass over tea Kettle

Accidental death then," Tubman said with some relief. "Or what we like to call 'death by misadventure,' if you add in the empty bottle. Is Skeeter on the way?" "As far as I know," Larry said. "Cody had him called.

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

Tal vez accidente no es la palabra correcta después de todo. Tal vez milagro lo es. O tal vez no es un milagro. Tal vez es solo vida. Cuando te abres a ella. Cuando te pones en su camino. Cuando dices que sí.

Una vez que un accidente pasa, no hay vuelta atrás.

The weather turned cool a few weeks later, and that winter was when Mia had her accident. So that actually turned out to be the last time I went camping. But even if it weren't, I still think it would be the best trip of my life. Whenever I remember it, I just picture our tent, a little ship glowing in the night, the sounds of Mia's and my whispers escaping like musical notes, floating out on a moonlit sea.

Maybe accident isn't the right word at all. Maybe miracle is. Or maybe it's not a miracle, Maybe this is just life. When you open youself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.