#accidents

Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods. ↗

— Bill Lipinski

#affect #affected #communities #crossing #grade

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse. ↗

— James Longstreet

#bad #battle #being #honest #many

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#believe #encounters #history #i #only

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Plato

#destinies #happening #legislate #man #never

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#activity #bad #because #crash #dangerous

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#about #accidents #both #brought #conflict

There are no small accidents on this circuit. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#circuit #small

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#going #happen #i #lots #lucky

Inside your soul is the ability to survive even the toughest storms, and that paradise can always be found--even in the middle of a hurricane--if you are willing to look. ↗

— Denise Hildreth Jones

#humor #love-and-romance #remarriage #humor

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy