Quotes About Accident

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

I could have found a dry place in the trees, but I was running and fell into a hole." The old man winked at the stranger and chuckled. "From the looks of it, the ground flew up and hit you in the face.

A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in the balance. He's rushed to the hospital and into surgery, but there's only one doctor there, and as soon as the doctor sees the boy, the doctor says, 'I can't operate on my own son!' How could this be, if the boy's father was killed in the crash?

The women don't really believe that their beloved would do such a thing,even if they're shown s severed limb or a headless torso.Or if they believe it,they know down to their bone marrow that lover-boy really had the best of intentions;it must have been some kind of very unfortunate accident,a well-meaning blunder;in fact, even more likely, it was a humanitarian act.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. (Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

But, golly gee, javelins are sharp! I shouldn't harp on such things, But I hope there's not an accident! You know, excrement does happen. Even to the sons of kings.

El valor de una casualidad es igual a su tasa de improbabilidad.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Stercus accidit.

You're going to want to, but you just can't blame the accident on the Bartles & Jaymes. That wouldn't be fair. Yes, Mooney's blood alcohol was flirting with .15 and his reaction time was down, but 250 pounds of aggressively stupid animal that springs out of nowhere and stands frozen on the center stripe of a dark highway, right in the middle of an unlit curve, I mean, that asshole has to be factored into the equation too.

JEFF. I never asked. What happened to your leg, Mrs. Levaco? PATTIE. When Kim was staying at the hospital with her heart attack, I snuck out back for a quick smoke and I fell off the loading dock. JEFF. Oh. You probably shouldn't have been smoking anyway. PATTIE. Hey, I smoked when I was pregnant with Kim and nothin' happened to her ! ( Pattie exits .) JEFF. I'd like to put your mom in a room with my dad and conduct experiments.

God never does anything accidentally.