Quotes with accidents

  • The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
  • After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

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  • Art Buchwald The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Aristotle The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Mario Puzo Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
    Source: The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Charles Dickens Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Rohinton Mistry After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
    Source: Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 758
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Derek Wall At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.
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  • W. Mitchell Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
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  • Bill Lipinski Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Louis Pasteur Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Elie Wiesel I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.
    Source: New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Don Marquis now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Avicenna Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Alice Meynell Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Alan Coren The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Orson Welles The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Nathaniel Borenstein The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
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  • Ben Wheatley The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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