accidents Quotes

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. <br /> In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain; <br /> more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them...

That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them yourself. That way you're in control of the situation.

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. There are no misfits, there are no freaks, there are no accidents. There are only things we don't understand.

\'In France,\' Marcel said with wintry dignity, \'accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen.\'

There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

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.

I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,<br />Those undreamt accidents that have made me<br />Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,<br />Being but a part of ancient ceremony<br />Notorious, till all my priceless things<br />Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.