Famous Quotes & Sayings

This isn't an easy accident to dissect. I don't think anybody has the answer yet.

Sam Harris

‎Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident

Each year, around 38,000 children in playgrounds are injured seriously enough to have to go to hospital. Many are unavoidable accidents and it doesn't mean that a playground is unsafe.

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute

Except for a couple of bus accidents, there have been no major incidents.

Based on accidents and amount of traffic, we could meet criteria. We might get lucky and get it in the next three or four years.

Dennis Green

As they say, a lot of accidents happen around the house so you have to be careful. I'm not sure all the details. I did talk with Calvin and that's the most I could get get from him as far as how it happened. He just kind of slipped and went to brace himself and went through the window.

Brian Ching

Coming back from this injury has been difficult, ... Those thoughts have been in my mind, but I have to put that behind me and just say those are freak accidents and won't happen again. Now I am more conscious of how I treat my body off the field, and that will help.

Chris Hadfield

'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't.

Brakemen rode outside, on top of cars, year round, ... Many were killed by tunnel ceilings and by icicles. There were a lot of accidents and wrecks in this area.

Madonna Ciccone

When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

Peter Cooper

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Jim Knight

With proper training, certainly this accident could have been avoided,

Mike Evans

We wanted to achieve new standards of occupational safety and health. We decided the construction industry could do better and could learn from other industries that it's possible to create a culture where accidents are not accepted.

We've had these 55 accidents and they are preventable and they shouldn't be happening.

John Muir

To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation: to Muir it was the very smile of God.

We all assume certain risks in what we do, in what activities we pursue. Accidents do and will happen.

We all assume certain risks in whatever we do, whatever activities we pursue, and regardless of how experienced, careful and dedicated we are. Accidents do and will happen, and that's what happened.

Robert Baker

There appears to be some similarities in the history of accidents and incidents over the past six years, and our commitment to safety requires our vigilance in maintaining industry-leading training and operating procedures.

The recording obtained from the accident CVR was completely blank, with no conversations or aircraft noise heard on any of the four channels.

These accident ratios tell me as a traffic engineer that there's something we need to look at.

Don Kelly

The same thing goes for wreckers, ... As a result, it's taking our officers a lot longer to work an accident and a lot longer before they can answer another call.

I've seen so many accidents occur, because people aren't paying attention to what's going on in front of them. While they're looking over, their vehicle is still moving, and what happens? ... they're involved in an accident.

It was the way I fell. It was a freak accident I guess.

Michael Hayden

It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign - and I don't think this was an accident - the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.

These bridges are safe to use. The issue becomes, you have so much traffic using them, they may suffer from a safety standpoint of having so many vehicles, and more accidents because you're cramming so many people through a bottleneck. We would never let a bridge that gets into a condition of having failure remain open.

These seven companies have demonstrated a strong commitment to workplace safety and exemplify what all Pennsylvania businesses across the commonwealth should strive to achieve fewer accidents and injuries,

Mike Easley

The State Highway Patrol has responded to more than 3,000 weather-related accidents since Wednesday, ... We still urge people to take care on secondary roads and in rural areas. And especially at night in freezing temperatures it will be very dangerous on the highways of North Carolina tonight.

John Aubrey

I shall take particular notice here of the third of November, both because 'tis my own birth day, and also for that I have observed some remarkable accidents to have happened thereupon.

I've been here for 20 years. I have been involved in fatal accidents for 12 or 13 years. I have never been involved in a situation where we had notes. I've never been in a situation where we had 12 people killed in one event, either.

I understood how great the print of this Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one is, that he is truly love and towards who we have to act with the same love he conceived us, because everything he did was to make us feel his love, but this was not possible without a world in which the love to be reflected in one way or another, and the worlds of the Mirrors are the so-called worlds of Images, of Destiny, of so-called Knowledge which is in fact an image of Destiny. Nevertheless, cannot this image of Destiny be changed from this vision full of tragedies that the human society has at least for now?

Brad Thompson

The witness lived across the street from the accident, heard the accident occur, ran to the scene and was able to help three of the four patients get out of the vehicle.

The visibility was good and the light was good. There were no weather issues going on when the accident occurred.