Accident Quotations

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don't believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it's purely luck.

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You're focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents.

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.

I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.

The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

Personally, I would say they should come forward. And I would say I would have come forward if I'd caused an accident like that.

On Monday, I met with FBI Director Louis Freeh to inform him that this accident might -- and again I emphasize the word might -- be the result of a deliberate act.

I was shocked this morning to read that he had broken his ankle. I thought maybe he had been in a car accident or something.

Nobody really thought this mine accident would have a happy ending, but no one could have envisioned how much pain the families would suffer.

Like a traffic accident when lanes are closed, it does take a while to get everything moving up to speed again.

One of my talking points will be the accident of geography.

One of the worst fears that a coach has is to take a kid away from their family and not be able to bring them home. When an accident happens and a student loses their life, it's tough on the whole community.

One of the things we've seen this past year is when 65 has an accident and it's blocked, there's not a good evacuation route off the interstate other than through downtown Cullman on 31 highway, ... This will give us an extra route. It's no fun getting stuck on the interstate.

No-one likes to injure a fellow professional, but it was a freak accident and it's good news for everybody involved that he's on the road to recovery now.

Police officers should be considering is it worth the risk of an accident or the risk of human life for the type of crime I'm pursuing. In the Lewis case, the officers just wanted to talk to two juveniles riding on a motorcycle.

People who ask, "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice there, did you sunshine? When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?" If the bus came, would I be standing here, Knobhead? When you're involved in an accident and someone asks, "Are you alright?" Yes, fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off. People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks, that's an image I really didn't need.

Nuclear power is just as dangerous for Canada in 2006 as it was for Ukraine in 1986. A catastrophic accident has a low probability, but devastating consequences.

Petrol bombs don't appear by accident, blast bombs do not appear by accident and certainly firearms have to be planned to be produced in the way they were produced.

My first reaction is that this type of accident can happen to anyone, even a seasoned hunter.

My friends and I are blessed to escape this accident with only minor injuries, and thankfully I was wearing my seat belt.

I don't know exactly how it happened. From what I've been told, he caught a rut or something and parts of his knee cap shattered off. His doctor says it's the kind of accident you normally see in a car accident.

I got told by one major publisher that if someone had a car accident while driving and listening to my books, the company could be liable!

I'd like to report... that this is an accident based on initial findings,

I'd like to report to the listeners that this is an accident based on initial findings.

If this accident had not occurred, would this plan have gone forward and we would not have discovered it until it was actually put into place? And we don't know the answer to that question.

If they should get into an accident, your insurance will protect you. It will be primary. If the other person also has insurance, their insurance is going to be secondary. So in the event there is bad accident and driver or passengers of the other car sue you, it is your own insurance that will be used first and then the driver's will be used second.

Lee fell off his bicycle, that was pretty much it. That's all it really is, no car accident or anything like that. It was a freak thing that I feel bad about for Lee, but we've got to try to get him back as soon as we can.

Mom, if you're watching, please come here, come to the station. Call the police. We just want to talk to you to see what happened, if it was an accident or not.

Sixteen years ago, the only thing we had when the accident happened was hope. And I think what we see here is the beginning of hope for a lot of kids.

Mining is dangerous, but it is work habits that make it unsafe. When there's an accident you need to learn from it, so you can make sure it doesn't happen again. You learn from the accident so it doesn't repeat itself.

Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.

Most passengers were asleep when the accident took place. I was also asleep on my seat. Suddenly I heard a loud thud and I fell down from my seat. I was unconscious and later, when I regained consciousness, I was in the hospital bed.

MSHA and the state will do all we can to determine what caused this accident so we can continue to improve the safety protections for all miners.

MSHA is pursuing promising wireless technologies to help ensure safe working environments for miners and improve rescue teams' abilities to locate them should an accident occur. MSHA is dedicated to conducting a thorough evaluation of existing technologies and pursuing promising technological advances to ensure that every step is taken to improve mine safety.

When he hit me, I didn't really feel the stick more than my legs going down under me. You've got to be careful with your stick, bottom line. Accident or not, he's responsible for his stick.

Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.

Soldiers and officers were involved in a clash among themselves when the defence minister's car was by accident passing.

Second-guessing is as bad for the criminal justice system as it is for football games. I have a real problem with having a case that was investigated 31 years ago and found to be an accident and then reinvestigated 30-plus years later when everything is destroyed and it's found to be a murder.

She took the car back to her friend this morning and her friend looked at the damage and had seen media reports about the accident and realized that her car wasn't damaged by a barricade. That's when she called us.

So in a sense, the accident was definitely good for me and if that didn't happen, it probably would have taken me a lot longer to get productive.

She's been through a lot. It's that fine line when a tragic accident becomes a crime.

The only thing that kept this accident from being catastrophic was the time of day that it occurred.

I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.

Frankie: Eww is that a bug? Fan 1: No, I think it's a sharpie mark. Frankie: It is a bug. Fan 2: No, actually it is a bug. I sorta smushed it by accident and it stayed on the picture. Frankie: That's gross (circles bug and write eww on paper).

I don't think anyone will have a handle on how the fingers of the Dan Ryan will be affected. All the roads are interconnected, and one accident can have a domino effect on everything.

From what I'm hearing, the UPS truck and car sort of tangled in an accident and the bus became involved later when the UPS truck lost control. The roads were just wet with a little bit of slush at the time of the accident.

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

If an operator is involved in a second avoidable accident within 12 months, they are required to receive an additional 16 hours of training. Operators who have had three collisions or more within the last 12 months, avoidable or unavoidable, may be required to attend our five-day, 40-hour Refresher Training class depending on the nature of the accidents.

If another accident happens without safety changes, you are responsible.

For the record, he can tell you he actually has no memory of the accident whatsoever.

I don't understand the attack on my brother. I thought it was a cheap shot and disappointing and not true . . . This accident was probably the most hurtful thing that ever happened to anybody and everybody that had family on those planes. They suffered a lot.

I don't think we're going to be able to determine the cause of the accident based on these records.

If it were me, I would go to some homes in the area of the accident and try to find the owners -- if it was not late at night, and if it was safe to walk around.

I had laryngitis twice and I had to cancel a few shows and replace them with other ones, and that was a real drag. I hate that. And Keith also had an accident where he broke his ribs.

He's a great shot. He's very safety conscious. This is something that unfortunately was a bad accident and when you're with a group like that, he's safe or safer than all the rest of us.

Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one.

Her record is minimal. This is just a tragic accident and she will be, when the facts come out, she will be shown that she is not guilty of these charges.

We told him that a lot of them were killed in the accident and he got really emotional. It was a tough thing. He was asking me specifically by name. 'How is this person? How is this person?' We just told him, we're sorry, we're sorry.

I loved it because it was so well done and deserves an Oscar. It's amazing when you think about how a car accident affects all these relationships. It challenges the way we think, and how we don't always know what we think we know.

He was passing by the accident scene and he stopped to see if he could help.

He was always quick with a joke. He loved to laugh and make other people smile, ... Coming on the heels of the accident involving our news intern Katie Marshall, this is just a devastating loss for the staff.

He says he doesn't remember the accident itself and the doctors say that is normal for a person who sustained the type of injuries he did. He has seen the stories that have appeared in The Cullman Times and we're saving them for him. He thinks he's famous now.

He was very seriously injured in the accident and doesn't know how he survived. All three people around him were killed.

The pain and horror of losing a loved one to a workplace accident is unimaginable. We're here today because thousands of workers go to work and don't return home at the end of the day - and it doesn't have to be that way.

I feel great at the moment. In many ways, this is the best time of my life. I'm not fooling with alcohol or drugs anymore and I really feel in great health. I also quit smoking cigarettes when I had my car accident so I have a lot more breath control and can hit notes that I hadn't hit for years.

Jose was a victim of an unfortunate accident and we all feel for him. He will get on with his rehabilitation as soon as the condition of his heel allows him to do so. We hope to have him back in time to help the team down the final stretch.

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

My philosophy in this business is that bad things can and do happen to good people. So whether it's an auto accident or a marital problem or somebody just not telling you the truth, there are a lot of things that people hide from each other. There's a way to find those things out.

My situation is not unique as far as the accident is concerned, ... The circumstances are what's unique, and that's what ended up burying me. They didn't want to fix the problem. They wanted to fix the blame.

Lindsey caught an edge coming into a jump and then she fell off the jump. The accident occurred because her legs split on landing.

Maryland has a fairly high accident rate as well as high insurance rates.

Somehow that gap has got to be closed, ... Until it's closed, we will continue to find units that are under stress like the 66th and will continue to have the problems surface and tragedies occur like the accident two years ago.

Some of our guys, they get skittish working at night after what happened on the zipper lane accident a couple of years ago. And we don't blame them.

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.

Our law here in Arizona, it requires that the driver have known that he injured an individual or a reasonable person should have known that he may have hit an individual, ... And the facts and circumstances surrounding his conduct after the accident will go directly to that element of the charge.

I will not allow any effort to hide the truth or cover up any aspect of what happened, because the calamity is great, the accident grave,

I remember when I was a boy, my father used to walk around without one of his fingers that he lost in an accident in the workplace.