Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Brown

Like all manufacturers of consumer products, Cooper has lawsuits filed against it for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, car accidents occur and there can be fatalities. We hardly believe plaintiff attorneys are in a position to judge the quality of our products or the quality of our manufacturing facilities.

Like all freedom, this can be abused or used for good, ... we don't outlaw cars because people sometime have accidents in them.

Nancy Gibbs

Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

Nancy Gibbs

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

We want to avoid accidents such as this one.

Today was pretty encouraging. She understands the etiquette of the track and how to avoid collisions. I feel a lot more positive about it, and probably less concerned about potential accidents or injury.

Dennis C. Blair

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep, no task too difficult' approach that we take toward al Qaeda.

Tom Chatfield

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.

We're encouraged by the fact that several of the pre-tour recommended rides have gone very well, with few accidents. We think the education and safety clinics that have been implemented have been a huge help in making that happen.

Amy Klobuchar

We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they've increased exponentially in just the last few years.

With the accidents that have been happening on Blue Diamond, we've been talking with NDOT (Nevada Department of Transportation) on things we can do.

Unfortunately, accidents like that happen in wrestling. Sometimes the circle just isn't big enough for the wrestlers. I was looking forward to seeing that match, too.

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

Henry Petroski

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

Fred Upton

We have seen hundreds and hundreds of accidents, many serious injuries, ... And what this bill does is correct those problems.

There are always accidents right here on the curve, there was one two weeks ago. There was a baby involved and had to be transferred to a hospital by air flight.

When you have this kind of weather, you're going to have accidents.

There are a fair share of accidents, it's a combination of speed and people being in a hurry,

There are accidents that, if they are foreseen, are avoided.

There has been no place for families in investigations of mining accidents, and that day is over.

There has been a number of fatal car accidents and it needs to be controlled by a traffic signal,

When Christopher got his license it had the organ donation on the back. My husband is a retired firefighter and Christopher had seen and heard a lot about accidents and what happens to people, and he was very aware of what problems there are and that is something he wanted to do. So he is still helping people.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

This year's tragic mine accidents in West Virginia require immediate action to put in place addition safety requirements to help miners successfully evacuate a mine when an emergency occurs.

Ram Dass

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

We have been lucky, the only accidents that have been reported were minor. It has been typical accidents that happen when children go outside to play. However, when the skate park first opened, we did have a young man that re-injured a previous injury.

Don Galloway

When I was in college, a professor said there are three causes of accidents -- the car, the roadway or the nut behind the wheel.

We didn't get any major accidents that backed up traffic for miles or anything like that. We couldn't have scripted it better.

There are quite a few accidents at this intersection. We think it will slow down some of the kids.

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

Casey Stengel

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.

Jane Seymour

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.