Accident Quotes - page 25

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident. (Takeshi Kitano)
People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl. View quote
Diana Gabaldon
I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. View quote
James Baldwin
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. View quote
Josiah Gilbert Holland
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Gould's arguments on the quirkiness of human intelligence are not only presented as part of an evolutionary argument, but also I believe to buttress an ideological viewpoint. In brief, his assessment of Man as an evolutionary accident is to lead us into a libertarian attitude whereby, by virtue of a cosmic accident, we, and we alone, have no choice but to take responsibility for our own destiny and mould it to our desire. View quote
Simon Conway Morris
If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody. View quote
Lauren Hutton
Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident. View quote
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. View quote
Ram Dass
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old. (Michael Cunningham)
The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly, continuous process. But the world was not continuous; it changed discontinuously, and often by accident. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history. View quote
Ian Kershaw
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people. View quote
George Wallace
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident. View quote
Andy Samberg
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun. View quote
Patrick Stump
The doctrine of Shakespeare, where it is not vaguer, is darker in its implication of injustice, in its acceptance of accident, than the impression of the doctrine of Æschylus. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
What men call accident is God's own part. View quote
Philip James Bailey
It is because of God's love that I care about the fate of atheists. When an atheist says he sees no evidence that God exists, I take the time to reason with him about creation not being an accident, even though it is intellectually demeaning to have to do so (atheism is the epitome of stupidity). It's an intellectual embarassment. But I have done so thousands of times, and will do so until my last breath... thanks alone to the love of God that dwells in me. View quote
Ray Comfort
Each day, most of the 4 billion chicken brains do what modern man's brain can't. They make eggs and chickens. Is the chicken more intelligent than man? Probably not. Therefore, something far superior to man must have made the chicken. 'Accident' is the alternative. View quote
Ray Comfort
It would be far more logical to say that the epic movie BEN HUR happened by accident than to say that there is no God. (Ray Comfort)
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional. View quote
Fareed Zakaria
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident. View quote
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
Everybody here drove around like a dedicated loser, expecting moment to moment to get into an accident. Doc could relate to this - it was like the beach, where you lived in a climate of unquestioning hippie belief, pretending to trust everybody while always expecting to be sold out. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. View quote
Stephen Curry