Quotes
Quotes about Accidents
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances. -- Cato (act V, sc. 1)
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.
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.
Chapter of accidents. -- Notes for Speeches (vol. II, p. 426), (1852 edition)
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
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.
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. -- The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XXVIII)
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. -- David Copperfield. Chap. xxvii.
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners. -- Curiosities of Literature--The Bibliomania
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. -- Saint's Tragedy (act II, sc. 4)
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
Chapter of accidents. -- Letter, Feb. 16, 1753.
EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have passed.
I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
To the very moment that he bade me tell it:
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travels' history;
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,
It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
Would Desdemona seriously incline. -- Othello. Act i. Sc. 3.
Of moving accidents by flood and field. -- Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. -- King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at I, ii)
The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book. -- in a speech in reply to Lord Grafton
