Accident
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Accident, Famous, Feelings, Judge, Life, Meaningful
A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motions of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: Acceptance, Accident, Accidentally, area, Described, Descriptions, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Popularity, Population, Population growth, Requirement, Research
I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a… very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
Author: I.King jordanTopics: Acceptance, Accident, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hospital, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Philadelphia, Positive
Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He’s not an identical twin so I didn’t care
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Accident, Brother, Died, Famous, Feelings, Ironically, Meaningful, Recorded
The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Accident, Law, Serious, Travel
It’s a tragic fact to die in an accident.
Author: Gabrielle ZevinTopics: Accident, Death, Famous, Tragic reality
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Accident, Anything, Came, Creativity, Dedication, Effort, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Innovation, Inspirational, Invention, Meaningful, Never, Work
I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Accepts, Accident, Accidentally, Famous, Fancy, Leadership, Leads, Serious, Serious condition, Similarity, Simple, Simple Gestures, Sudden, Suffer
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Acceptance, Accident, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Occasion, Power, Remember, Turn, Turning
Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play — In accidental power — The blonde Assassin passes on — The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.
Author: Emily DickinsonTopics: Acceptance, Accident, Blonde, Famous, Flowers, Happy, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Measure, Play, Positive, Surprise
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Accident, Adopting, Attitude, Divine, Famous, Happen, Happens, Remain, Scheme, Strange, Witness
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Author: Napoleon BonaparteTopics: Accident, Famous, Fate, Misnamed
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Accepting, Accident, Accidents, Balance, Confidence, Confident attitude., Correct, Correlation, Greater, Greater responsibility, Margins, Throughout, Throw, Uncertainty, Unchanging
The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Accident, Carefully, Consideration, Cooperation, Famous, Health, Illness, Important, Meaningful, Nurtured, Observation, Possessions, Principles, Unpredictable
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 SennaTopics: Accident, Lucky, Really, Season, Serious
If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs me my life, I hope it is in one go
Author: Ayrton SennaTopics: Accident, Happen, Hope
There are no small accidents on this circuit.
Author: Ayrton SennaTopics: Accident, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.
Author: Nelson MandelaTopics: Accident, Apartheid, Famous, Human Beings, Meaningful, Poverty, Slavery
Don’t doubt the Creator because it is inconceivable that accidents alone could be the controller of this universe.
Author: Isaac NewtonTopics: Accident, Believe, Controller, Creator, Famous, Inspirational, Universe
The accident was a horrible thing – but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It’s a happy irony if there is such a thing. I’m proud to have known him
Author: Morgan FreemanTopics: Accident, Happy, Horrible, Irony, Superman
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Accident, Dead, Death, Experiences, Famous, Fear, Fearless, Feelings, Meaningful, Positive, Risking, Risks
My Bridgestone tire blows out on a day that Ferrari wins? Smells too convienent to me..
Author: Lewis HamiltonTopics: Accident, Coincidental, Famous, Ferrari
Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you’re driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it’s going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.
Author: Lewis HamiltonTopics: Acceptance, Accident, Attentions, Car, Challenge, Chance, Dangerous, Expensive, Famous, Feelings, Formula One, Mistakes, Multimillion-Dollar, Scary
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Author: Luca ModricTopics: Accident, Brainy, Challenge, Courage, Dream, Famous, Hard Work, Improvement, Learning, Love, Meaningful, Motivational, Passionate, Sacrifice, Success