#accidents

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. ↗

— Alan Coren

#act #cannot #designation #god #happen

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#cars #crash #safety

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#accidents #across #also #characters #film

It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they were--their fragility was irrefutable, medically proven--and yet Emily detested the inevitable rundown of accidents and tragedies, the more fortunate clucking their tongues and counting their blessings, all the while knowing it was just a matter of time. She didn't need to be reminded that she was a single misstep from disaster, especially here, without Henry, surrounded by the survivors of an earlier life. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#aging #vulnerability #age

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#accidents #causes #intelligence #man #only

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#across #arizona #automobile #come #devastating

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#automobile #buffalo #dangerous #everyone #him

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#car #dated #done #gotten #i

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#accidents #change #impossible #man #reveals