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Quotes About Accidents

He said that earlier, about accidents, about never know which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened.
~ Gayle Forman
Ella cree en los santos. Yo creo en los accidentes. Pienso que básicamente creemos en la misma cosa.
~ Gayle Forman
He laughs a little, but there's something in his voice that sounds almost reverent. 'You never know what will last.' He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which ones is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened. 'I think sometimes you do know,' I say, my voice filling with emotion.
~ Gayle Forman
Meant to be," Kate scoffs. "Excuse me but I'm having a hard time buying all of this woo-woo stuff... Nothing happens without intention Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours- Life is ruled by accidents- isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
~ Gayle Forman
You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.
~ Gayle Forman
I do not say that things in themselves possess a quantity, that their reality possesses a degree, their existence a connection of accidents in a substance, etc. This nobody can prove, because such a synthetic connection from mere concepts, without any reference to sensuous intuition on the one side or connection of such intuition in a possible experience on the other, is absolutely impossible.
~ Immanuel Kant
To us, all life is a series of accidents, to be met with by improvisations. To them, all life is purposive and should be met by precalculation.
~ Isaac Asimov
It's a whole series of accidents that makes a show into a hit. A show can be fantastic and still not be a hit. You just have to hit the Zeitgeist at the right moment, and there are so many factors that you're not in control of.
~ Kerry Bishe
What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.
~ Ratan Tata
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
At rare moments in history, by a series of accidents never to be repeated, arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount, hedonistic, mindless, intent upon the glorious physical instant.
~ Colm Maclnnes
About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.
~ Scott Walker
I'm saying that storms happen - cancer happens. Accidents happen. We can either run from them, hide from them, or....go through them. God is with us in all of those situations. But yeah, some of his best people are pressed out, shaken, fermented...aged through circumstances or time.
~ Susan May Warren
Event succeeds event; accidents, people, happenings, one after another come toward us. Each must be met and dealt with. . . . For this process of adjustment is life, and the mastery of it is the art of living. . . . —KARL DE SCHWEINITZ, The Art of Helping People out of Trouble, 1924
~ Susan Meissner
The Soviet State had never made radiation something that was publicized in any way, shape, or form. In fact, the Soviet Union had experienced a number of serious accidents involving radiation since the 1950s and had covered it up a number of times.
~ Craig Mazin
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
~ Sally Ride
You can effortlessly look up accident statistics on the Web, but they do not easily come to mind. Note
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Adam yere yaklasiyor,hala ipleri cozmeye cabaliyordu. Sonra yere carpti. Carpmasi ile havaya sicramasi bir oldu. Parasut ustunu orttu. Kalan atlayislari iptal ettiler. Hava gosterisi bitmke uzereydi. Unutulacak tipten bir sey degildi gorduklerimiz. Ucak kazalari,parasutcu ve yanik. Bisikletlerimizi eve pedallarken yol boyunca onlari konustuk. Hayat hayli ilginc birsey olacakmis gibi gelmisti bize.
~ Charles Bukowski
a autoestrada é um circo de emoções baratas e mesquinhas, é a humanidade em movimento [...] as autoestradas são uma lição sobre aquilo em que nos transformamos e os acidentes e as mortes são na maioria uma colisão de seres incompletos, de vidas lamentáveis e dementes. quando dirijo pelas autoestradas eu vejo a alma da humanidade da minha cidade e ela é feia, feia, feia: os vivos sufocaram o coração de vez.
~ Charles Bukowski
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
~ Charles Stross
The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark.
~ Thucydides
Swiss cheese model' of accidents. Imagine a series of safety
~ Tim Harford
In fact, about 60 percent of gun deaths in the United States are suicides, not homicides or rare accidents.
~ Tim Harford
it was just fate in the way fate has of providing the destitute with a greater quota of accidents for which nobody can be blamed.
~ Kiran Desai