Accident Quotes

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

What men call accident is God's own part.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

Never insult anyone by accident.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.