Quotes of: Accident Keyword

But here in my hometown, history was like a fine dust that settled out on everything. There was nothing to counter it. The culture had been hardened by a religion suspect of joy, yet fascinated by sin. Its moral acceptance of slavery eroded compassio...

Where It Began: Book One: Accidents of Birth Trilogy

Barton Keyes: Now look, Walter. A guy takes out an accident policy that's worth $100,000 if he's killed on the train. Then, two weeks later, he *is* killed on the train. And, not from the train accident, mind you, but falling off some silly observati...

Double Indemnity

Link Appleyard: Mr. Peabody's awful hurt and he needs you bad over at his office. Liberty Valance: What's the matter, Mr. Marshal? Somebody have an accident? Doc Willoughby: So that's it, another one of your 'accidents', huh Valance? I'm looking forw...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Coach Boone: [after Gary got into his car accident] I don't know mama, maybe Yost was right. Maybe I pushed him too hard. Carol Boone: Gary had an accident. Sometimes life's just hard, for no reason at all. Coach Boone: Do you think I was blinded by ...

Remember the Titans

Willard: [voice-over] I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I ...

Apocalypse Now

...we're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.

Clever Girl

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

The Sirens of Titan

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

Steven Wright

People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

Nancy Gibbs

What men call accident is God's own part.

Philip James Bailey

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Francis Thompson

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

H.L. Mencken

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Dick Van Patten

Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.

Daniel C. Tomas

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

Gary Numan

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

Jeff Greenfield

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

The Lords of Discipline