accidents Quotes

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

Yeah, I've mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay . I don't hate them, I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no, I'm a professional. I'm just saying that can happen.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

We get permission from relatives to see victims in accidents caused by alcohol.

They were wonderful accidents.

They don't know what it was like for us when we were kids. We try to instill in the kids to keep it clean to prevent accidents. All it takes is a little gummy bear and you're really hurting.

Looking at national studies, one of the key issues in accidents involving teens was being distracted. One of the primary causes of distraction were other teens in the car.

It is unfortunate to hear when accidents happen but at the same time you recognize it is part of the business.

The last couple of accidents there (on Durango at Route 160), people ran stop signs. I find it hard to believe people aren't seeing those signs.