Accidents Quotes
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In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't do by oneself. (Quote by - Robert Motherwell)
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology . (Quote by - Liddle Hart)
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice. (Quote by - Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld)
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident. (Quote by - Joyce Carol Oates)
The accident of an accident. (Quote by - Lord Thurlow)
In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. (Quote by - Hector Hugh Munro)
There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)
From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years:(Quote by - J. B. Phillips)
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. (Quote by - Alan Coren)
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing). (Quote by - Ballard, J. G)
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of the circumstances. (Quote by - Aristotle)
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