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If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.
I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.
Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245-
Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.
We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.
I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Accidents happen and all of that, but it's how we pick ourselves up from the accidents that matters.
Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.
In this universe, which was created by a divine organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.
The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.
There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun.
The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.
My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.
It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.
Success to me obviously isn't having accidents or getting penalties but finishing races as high a position as possible.
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.
Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.
We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.
He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to.
Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.
I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
I don't watch myself generally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.
Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
I nearly got killed in a film, 'Patthar Ke Insaan.' I nearly lost my eyes another time and have been in many accidents in my career.
People ask why God allows suffering. You could just as well ask the Minister of Transport why he allows accidents on Britain's roads.
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.
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.
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.
Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
I shot 'Fruitvale Station' on super-16, and then I shot a movie called 'The Harvest' on 35mm, and then I shot 'Little Accidents' on 2-perf 35.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Ensuring guns are out of the reach of children and holding those accountable who are irresponsible is the first step in reducing firearm accidents.