Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Harmon

Personally, I would say they should come forward. And I would say I would have come forward if I'd caused an accident like that.

Nobody really thought this mine accident would have a happy ending, but no one could have envisioned how much pain the families would suffer.

George Bernard Shaw

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Jim Hall

On Monday, I met with FBI Director Louis Freeh to inform him that this accident might -- and again I emphasize the word might -- be the result of a deliberate act.

We can't know the number of accidents that haven't occurred.

Well, everyone had to ski the same course, so there's really no excuse. Accidents happen.

Kevin McCarthy

Unfortunately, when you get to the on-ice part, you get a lot of accidents because people can't skate all that well. We've had some broken bones and some injuries there, because a lot of these people have never been on skates before.

Unfortunately, we're out there too and being involved in as many accidents as anyone else.

David Vitter

Unfortunately, we're at the top of a really bad list, ... That is railway crossing accidents and fatalities. Although we're not a populous state, we rank in the Top 3 in railway accidents and the Top 5 in deaths related to railway accidents. We have as many dangerous railway crossing as just about any state, except maybe for California and Illinois.

I remember when I knew she was going to have to testify in the grand jury and I felt terrible because she'd been through the loss of her sister, this horrible accident at Christmas that killed her brother, and her mother was in the hospital. I was trying to make her understand that I didn't want her to be untruthful to the grand jury and if her memory was different than mine, it was fine, just go in there and tell them what she thought. So that's all I remember.

Ed Markey

I remember when I was a boy, my father used to walk around without one of his fingers that he lost in an accident in the workplace.

Pennsylvania companies are not only reducing workplace injuries, they are saving hundreds of millions of dollars by focusing on safety, ... As a result, fewer accidents translate directly into improvements in productivity and further reductions in workers' compensation costs.

Our immediate focus is reduction of speed, enhanced enforcement and center-safety barriers to reduce serious and fatal accidents.

Our purpose is to give people a realistic snapshot of what happens to people in alcohol-related accidents. People always think it's not going to happen to them.

My situation is not unique as far as the accident is concerned, ... The circumstances are what's unique, and that's what ended up burying me. They didn't want to fix the problem. They wanted to fix the blame.

My philosophy in this business is that bad things can and do happen to good people. So whether it's an auto accident or a marital problem or somebody just not telling you the truth, there are a lot of things that people hide from each other. There's a way to find those things out.

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

Looking at national studies, one of the key issues in accidents involving teens was being distracted. One of the primary causes of distraction were other teens in the car.

Paul Deacon

Look left. Look right. And look left again. Careful drivers prevent accidents.

Maryland has a fairly high accident rate as well as high insurance rates.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not clumsy; just accident prone.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

Craig Charles

For me, everything has always been an accident.

The death of spectators is extremely painful and in those areas where a lot of work has been done to cut out the risks. Accidents on the course are different. The people sum up the dangers. They are (voluntarily) involved in a sport full of risks and therefore they know the risks they are taking.

Steve Johnson

Where was the bloody advertising for Wife Swap as it seemed to be quite accidental that me and the wife ended up watching it?

We were lucky that we didn't have a serious accident on our hands with the gas.

What I'm out there to try to prevent is accidents.

What I'm looking at is this. If there were six or seven accidents at that intersection, I'd say we have a problem. But there haven't been any accidents.

We told him that a lot of them were killed in the accident and he got really emotional. It was a tough thing. He was asking me specifically by name. 'How is this person? How is this person?' We just told him, we're sorry, we're sorry.

Ellen Gallagher

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

John Irving

I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.

What we really want to be able to do now, is to have government and the aviation industry working together right now to find that strategic solution, knowing that there is gridlock and the potential of increased accidents if we don't do something to address the problem today,

We used to have to do a lot of hiking to get to our avalanche control routes. And it didn't increase the number of accidents that much, like we had anticipated, because of the quality of skiers up there.