Best 203 quotes in «accidents quotes» category

Every day can be a platform to get you closer to your mountaintop. And yet, too many people live life by accident.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

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.

Excellence is never an accident.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

Fatigue seems to be a factor in this accident.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?

For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

If you think is was an accident, applaud.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I snorted heroin once by accident. It was amazing. But kids, don't snort heroin. It's too good.

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

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

I think life's too complex to be an accident.

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.