Quotes About Accidents

In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.

In no other city can one so cheerfully enjoy the accidents of bad art.

Unfortunately, motor vehicles are also responsible for 1.25 million accidental deaths every year (and more than ten times as many serious injuries)

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.

For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

The press no longer exaggerated the incidence of minor accidents

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

Unfortunately in motorsport, accidents can happen.

I had a spate of being run over between the ages of 11 and 13. I was quite a rambunctious child, I had a little moped I used to ride illegally. I got hit by cars three times because I was a very day-dreamy kid.

You never want to see anybody get hurt... but if you've ever played basketball before you've probably sprained your ankle so that stuff happens. It's part of the game.

I nearly got killed in a film, 'Patthar Ke Insaan.' I nearly lost my eyes another time and have been in many accidents in my career.

They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a great literary character. Only in accidents of pure perfection does the world actually become a stage." (Rule of Four, 54-55)

50 percent of police shot in the country on an annual basis shoot themselves. I'm not talking about suicide, but about officers who accidentally fire into their off-hand while drawing or into the strong-side leg while reholstering. Another 30 percent are shot by other cops, and 10 percent after that get shot by people who take their weapons away from them.

Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

We would not have 'America's Funniest Home Videos' without drunk brides and grooms falling into cakes.