(696 quotes found)
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”
William A. Foster
“Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.”
Mark Twain
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
Pablo Picasso
“He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”
Augustine of Hippo
“Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.”
Oscar Wilde
“Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.”
Dave Barry
“But the only things that interrupted our happy family life came out there on the field, injuries and accidents and sickness, as the boys gave it all they had.”
Casey Stengel
“For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed;”
Samuel Johnson
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