Accident Quotes

Accident Quotes & Sayings

These accident quotes and accident sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. There is something about the creative process - which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened - it's a sort of happy accident. - Betty Comden


I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Plato [Aristocles]


Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence. - Hannah Arendt


There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. - Leon Trotsky


Fame is a vapour, popularity is an accident, money takes wings, those who cheer you today may curse you tomorrow. The only thing that endures is character. - Horace Greeley


The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole