Quotes About Accident

Yet in practice it is the negative that's used by the pros, those selected by evolution: chess grandmasters usually win by not losing; people become rich by not going bust (particularly when others do); religions are mostly about interdicts; the learning of life is about what to avoid. You reduce most of your personal risks of accident thanks to a small number of measures.

though we play down the role of chance, especially when it comes to our own discoveries.

Cuál es la probabilidad de morir en un accidente aéreo?», por ejemplo, las personas aumentan el grado de probabilidad. Sin embargo, Slovic y sus colegas descubrieron, en patrones del mundo de los seguros, que en las pólizas la gente se olvidaba de esos sucesos altamente improbables. Dichos investigadores llaman a este fenómeno «la preferencia por asegurarse contra pequeñas pérdidas probables», a expensas de las menos probables pero de mayor impacto.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun. ...He's the Akron AWOL?!

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you. You already hit him with a car.

On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur

I was on my bike and got hit by some damfoo' in a Mercedes.

The Akron AWOL in my storm cellar. Can't be an accident. It was fated, man! Fated!" "You kicked me in the nuts. That wasn't fate; it was your foot.

How come you walk so funny? I was frying some chicken in the pan and the grease exploded, it burned my legs. I thought maybe you had war wounds. No, the chicken did it.

Like politicians, they may pretend to be in charge and shape society – this is a large part of their hope and mental equipment – but it is mostly an accident if they do so.

I have no doubt that my mother's pregnancy with me was an accident. Mostly because on several occasions, she told me I was an accident.

It is possible to chip your tooth while eating gummy bears when a plane is landing.

I'm a murderer, Ted! I'm a murderer. A dog murderer! I'm just like Phil Spector minus the music career." "No, Chelsea, you need to get ahold of yourself. You are not a murderer! This was an accidental dog homicide!" "What

Did you see what happened? Hard to miss, he said dryly. Your boat went kaplooie. Tally blinked at his easy dismissal of two lives and a million-dollar boat. Is that the technical term for it?

We know more people who have gone to the ER for an immersion-blender injury than just about any other, and we've seen almost every kitchen mishap imaginable.

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Perhaps Pre's driving was affected enough that he simply misjudged the curve and his approach speed. Perhaps, as one policeman speculated, he was reaching for a cassette tape and took his eyes off the road. Perhaps he failed to make the turn for an altogether different reason. The result is the same.

Nothing will undo the accident; nothing will immediately repair the jar, so what is the urgency of the beating? To teach a lesson or to enjoy it?

No creían que la muerte fuese un accidente: la vida tal vez lo fuera, pero la muerte era deliberada.

There's no bright side," Phineas objected. "The man's got no gonads." "But she hit the target," Carlos said. "The man has got no gonads," Phineas repeated forcefully. "It was an accident." Caitlyn set her gun on the counter. "I was aiming for his chest." "You blew his pecker to Connecticut," Phineas muttered. She grinned. "I think you have issues, Phineas. It was only a paper pecker.

These incidents were all accidental, but in Poland in 2008 a fourteen-year-old boy in Lódz caused several trains to derail when he used the infrared port of a modified TV remote control to hijack the railway's signaling system and switch the tram tracks. Four trams derailed, and twelve people were injured.