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Quotes About Accident

madam, the man cried, leaping to the ground, you're hurt! I'm dead, sir! she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.
~ Virginia Woolf
Qué derecho tenían los Bradshaw a hablar de muerte en su fiesta? Se había matado, sí, pero ¿cómo? El cuerpo de Clarissa siempre lo revivía, en el primer instante, bruscamente, cuando le contaban un accidente; se le inflamaba el vestido, le ardía el cuerpo.
~ Virginia Woolf
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three
~ Vladimir Nabokov
No man can bring about the perfect murder; chance, however, can do it
~ Vladimir Nabokov
By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.
~ Lao Tzu
What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.
~ Laura Ruby
Dex was relieved Dr. Gage didn't reveal how they'd met yesterday — with Dex almost getting squashed by Dr. Gage's SUV.
~ Lauren Tarshis
Vendors cursed as their baskets of fruit and vegetables toppled. A bamboo birdcage fell and burst open, scattering a flock of tiny white birds into the dusty air. Barrels rolled wildly through the streets, gushing wine as red as blood.
~ Lauren Tarshis
In the immediate aftermath of the crash, a young police officer named Pat McCann, who happened to be training at the airport that day, saw a man who had managed to get the upper half of his body through his window before the lower half was incinerated inside the plane.
~ Laurence Gonzales
The firemen said there were little fires everywhere," Lexie said. "Multiple points of origin. Possible use of accelerant. Not an accident.
~ Celeste Ng
Charise Mericle Harper
~ coincidences.
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
~ Charles Dickens
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
~ Charles Dickens
Chance takers are accident makers.
~ Author Unknown
We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a man-made problem can be solved by men and women.
~ W.H. Cameron, 1937
The Morro Castle traveled 3.1 miles head on into the storm at a speed of 18.8 knots for over ten minutes. In that time, the wind, gusting at over 20 knots, had acted as a giant bellows, fanning and speeding the flames the length of the ship.
~ Gordon Thomas
He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.
~ Grant Fuhr
In the Netherlands, fewer than one in thirty riders wear helmets, the streets are full of cyclists, and the bike accident and head injury rate is far lower than it is in the United States.
~ Grant Petersen
a few weeks before production wrapped on the movie 'Le Mans', racer David Piper lost control of his car and crashed as the cameras rolled. Years later, Piper recounted to a reporter, "I suddenly found myself sitting in only half a car, surrounded by smoke and dust, and I thought, Good Lord, that's my shoe over there--- and my foot is still in it!
~ Greg Laurie
An accident which should have caused the death of only five hundred instead of five thousand persons, but on the same day and in public, as the outcome of an accident appealing strongly to the eye, by the fall, for instance, of the Eiffel Tower, would have produced, on the contrary, an immense impression on the imagination of the crowd.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Some of it is simply luck.
~ H. Gilbert Welch
Fred had trocharised a bloated cow and the farmer had been so impressed by the pent up gas hissing from the abdomen that Fred had got carried away and applied his cigarette lighter to the canula. A roaring sheet of flame had swept on to some straw bales and burned the byre to the ground.
~ James Herriot
What I didn't notice was that the passenger seat was not fixed to the floor but stood freely on its sledge-like runners. I dropped into it and went over backwards, finishing with my head on the rear seat and my feet against the roof. Farnon helped me up, apologising with great charm, and we set off. Once
~ James Herriot
First job I had to do was pass the stomach tube on a horse. Got it into the trachea instead of the oesophagus. Couple of quick pumps and down went the horse with a hell of a crash—dead as a hammer. That's when I started these grey hairs.
~ James Herriot