Quotes on Accidents

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

Author: Josef Albers

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Author: Neal Barnard

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

Author: Dave Barry

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Author: Art Buchwald

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

Author: Gloria Estefan

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.

Author: Stephen Gould

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

Author: Jurgen Habermas

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

Author: Herman Kahn

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

Author: William King

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Author: Milan Kundera

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

Author: Norman Lear

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.

Author: Hermann Maier

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Author: Margaret Mead

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

Author: John Passos

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Author: Louis Pasteur

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Author: Plato

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

Author: Sally Ride

I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system.

Author: Allyson Schwartz

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Author: Ayrton Senna

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.

Author: Ayrton Senna