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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. -- J. B. Priestley
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. -- Charles Dickens
Omissions are not accidents. -- Marianne Moore
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time. -- Dejan Stojanovic
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. -- Pablo Picasso
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. -- Aristotle
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. -- Frida Kahlo
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. -- Neal Barnard
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. -- Muhammad Ali
Accidents happen all the time. -- Daniel Handler
Don't learn safety by accident. -- Jerry Smith
Accidents can happen at any time. -- Alistair Overeem
Accidents. It's all about the accidents. -- Gayle Forman
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families -- Charles Dickens
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. -- John Dos Passos
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. -- Andrew Davidson
Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children. -- Stephen Hawking
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. -- Frank Herbert
Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen. -- Nicholas Sparks
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them. -- A. A. Milne
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult. -- Mario Puzo
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. -- John Ruskin
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end. -- Jackson Pollock
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood. -- Deepak Chopra
Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused. -- Ernest Greenwood
Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful! -- Joe McNally
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. -- Stephen De Staebler
Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents. -- Ram Dass
Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. -- Moïra Fowley-Doyle
It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time. -- Tiger Woods
Accidents often produce the best solutions"¦ only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent. -- Jennifer Morla
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose. -- Andre Malraux
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally. -- Myfanwy Pavelic
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities. -- Frederick Sommer
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. -- Joe Barton
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride. -- Bear Grylls
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking. -- Nancy Gibbs
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance. -- Jodi Picoult
Accidents have already become an important factor restricting the development of a harmonious economy and society, and have attracted the strong attention of the Chinese government and society -- Li Yizhong
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. -- Rinko Kawauchi
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. -- Charles Baudelaire
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. -- John Updike
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful. -- Joan Miro
No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice. -- Darell Hammond
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. -- Ernest Shackleton
Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance. -- Harold Percival
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. -- Charles Dickens
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. -- Mark Twain
There are no accidents without intentions -- Alex Miller
There are no mistakes, only happy accidents. -- Bob Ross
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. -- Margaret Mead
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors -- Mark Twain
My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not. -- Randy Bachman
We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. -- Gloria Estefan
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage. -- Rahul Dravid
It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen. -- Ayrton Senna
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. -- Saint Augustine
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. -- Rowan Williams
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. -- Stephen Jay Gould
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse. -- James Longstreet
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. -- Lucy Walker
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. -- E. O. Wilson
Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. -- Tom Chatfield
Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way. -- Gary Numan
I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that. -- Andrea Bocelli
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. -- Marla Gibbs
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one. -- Pope Francis
There are no accidents. -- Ram Dass
Promptly improve your accidents. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Tragedies happen, accidents happen. -- Sarah Hanson-Young
There are no accidents in Nature, -- John Muir
Slightest accidents open up new worlds. -- Jeanette Winterson
There are no mistakes, just happy accidents. -- Bob Ross
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. -- Bob Ross
Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds. -- Herbert Simon
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. -- Joyce Carol Oates
There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny! -- Elie Wiesel
We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents. -- Bob Ross
There are no small accidents on this circuit. -- Ayrton Senna
There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe. -- Ram Dass
The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . . -- Edward Gibbon
The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents. -- Terry Pratchett
Softwareâ??related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements. -- Nancy Leveson
I don't think there's any accidents in my life. -- Billy Ray Cyrus
The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents. -- Warren Brown
Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice. -- Alexander Smith
There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned. -- Soroosh Shahrivar
It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents. -- Lucas Neff
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents. -- Nancy Gibbs
So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism. -- Hector Bianciotti
Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents? -- Bob Monkhouse
I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents. -- Kurt Vonnegut
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli -- Janet Evanovich
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. -- Benjamin Franklin
People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people. -- Garrison Keillor
Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane. -- Don Kelly
If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn. -- Elvis Costello
Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents. -- George Mikes
Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences. -- Allison Glock
Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end. -- Daniel C. Tomas
True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents. -- Foz Meadows
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents. -- Orson Welles
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. -- Charles Kingsley
Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents. -- Jim Lee
Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations. -- Timothy Keller
Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road. -- Eugene McCarthy
Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents. -- Jeff Beck
The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun! -- Max Elliott Slade
Now we average 90 accidents a day and often it's as high as 100 -- Don Kelly
Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents. -- Bauvard
A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television. -- Paul Virilio
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. -- Samuel Johnson
Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind. -- Matthew Bonifacio
What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur. -- Jane Seymour

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