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Quotes About Fatalities

or else the fatalities of the night would have increased manifold.
~ Bram Stoker
No organization, let alone one that is in the business of war and defending Singapore's sovereignty, can realistically promise zero fatalities or training incidents even as the public must insist on the strictest training safety parameters for the SAF, and MINDEF strives for the same.
~ Pritam Singh
Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease, her husband leaves her in nine out often cases; when a man contracts it, his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.
~ Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald
By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
~ Burt Rutan
The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.
~ Ray Bradbury
My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).
~ John Gofman
the AAF surgeon general suggests that in the Fifteenth Air Force, between November 1, 1943, and May 25, 1945, 70 percent of men listed as killed in action died in operational aircraft accidents, not as a result of enemy action.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
SYROTUCK ANALYZED 229 search and rescue cases (11 percent of them fatal) and concluded that almost three quarters of those who died perished within the first forty-eight hours of becoming lost.
~ Laurence Gonzales
The self is inflated, Then deflated, In a lemming rhythm of auto-destruction. Half a million auto-fatalities per annum. The fast-food-junk-death-road-show.
~ Heathcote Williams
Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism.
~ Le Corbusier
victim-resolved incidents result in far fewer fatalities than shooter-resolved incidents. Additionally, police-resolved shootings produce more casualties than victim-resolved shootings.
~ Chris Bird
Beds are dangerous. More people die in bed than anywhere else.
~ W.C. Fields
From almost every standpoint ethyl alcohol must be regarded as the most important poison with which medical men and jurists have to deal," Gettler wrote in a paper, listing a seemingly endless record of fatalities. "No other poison causes so many deaths or leads to or intensifies so many diseases, both physical and mental, as does [this] alcohol in the many forms in which it is taken.
~ Deborah Blum
In the first year and a half of Shostakovich's life, roughly 4,500 government officials were injured or killed in assassination attempts by radicals. In his toddler years, the government recorded 20,000 terrorist acts across the empire, with more than 7,500 fatalities.
~ Unknown
People were dying like flies
~ John M. Barry
In other words, not only have there been no fatalities resulting from Fukushima, but there have been no radiation-related injuries or medically-identifiable health effects either.
~ Mark Lynas
In 1999, USA Today analyzed the statistical link between CAFE standards and traffic fatalities and reported that "46,000 people have died in crashes they would have survived in bigger, heavier cars…since 1975."32
~ Mark R. Levin
Yes, I've had experience with investigating suspicious fatalities in controlled circumstances.
~ Martha Wells