#accidents

Never ever tickle anyone, who happens to be ticklish and holding a knife. Foolish accidents not only, may occure, but will occure and you'll regret it for the rest of your life. ↗

— R.K. Cowles

#life

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#arms #believe #car #crashes #day

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ↗

— Aristotle

#bears #best #circumstances #dignity #grace

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#accidents #claims #cruel #essence #grow

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

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#angel #breath #dominant #entire #habits

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

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#literature #art

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#accidents #american #automobile #beef #century