Quotes with accident

  • Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
  • If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
  • In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
  • Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
  • Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
  • When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
  • I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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  • Mark Twain Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Horace Greeley Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • J. G. Ballard After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
    Crash (1973)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Chuck Knox Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
    Chuck Knox
     
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Thompson An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Beatrix Potter Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
    The Tale of Peter Rabbit
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Cardinal de Retz Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • David Lloyd George Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Pietro Metastasio High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
    Pietro Metastasio
    Italian poet and librettist (1698 - 1782)
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  • Upton Sinclair I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • Josh Billings I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Michael Crichton I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]
    Michael Crichton
    American author of science fiction books and film screenplays (1942 - 2008)
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  • Barbara Jordan I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
    Barbara C. Jordan--selected speeches
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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