Quotes about Accidents

So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed in accidents. Why are you so interested?" "Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job. There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again. Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere. Accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you. My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying 'Random accidents ahead', 'Life's a lottery, Be lucky.' Cowardice is the sister of panic. I am not afraid of death. I am afraid for my loved ones. I'm afraid of accidents for friends. I'm afraid to look old. I'm afraid of gradual dying, when I have to grab onto something and someone ... 'Our Everything' wrote very correctly: 'My uncle of the most honest rules, when he fell seriously ill ...' Being young, I thought that this was a preamble and nothing more. Now I understand that this is the most important thing in the novel. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. Haste is the mother of accidents and fatal mistakes. And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss. I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them. There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins. Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not 'divine' accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions. The more you know about a book, the freer you can be to fool around. The less yo Workplace accidents with people who are sleep deprived or people who work shifts and they don't get the right amount of sleep during the day or at night. The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false. Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents. Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts. You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes. Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network. You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver's ed? What's up? I still haven't been to driver's ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can't see how driver's ed is really helping them out. Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps. Accidents happen all the time. I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them. A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents. It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn't hit you, the slumlord you hadn't offended, the malaria you hadn't caught. Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them. 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.