A Quote by Terry Pratchett

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
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April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents, because the measures you introduce to prevent accidents actually produce more accidents. That's certainly true of this sport; you're flying over 40 feet of what might look like snow, but it's hard as ice, it's as hard as pavement. You're doing acrobatic spins and tricks, 40 feet above pavement, essentially. There's been more accidents since, and there are going to continue to be more accidents, that's the nature of the sport.

Lucy Walker

Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home: 17% of all accidents occur in the home. Do not walk on the streets or pavements: 14% of all accidents occur to pedestrians. Do not travel by air, rail, or water: 16% of accidents happen on these. Only .001% of all deaths occur in worship services in church, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders. Hence the safest place for you to be at any time is at church!

Mark Leslie

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

David Lynch

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

James Belushi

You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate... You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind. And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur. In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

Jacque Fresco

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

Ram Dass

Accidents happen and all of that, but it's how we pick ourselves up from the accidents that matters.

Aquaria

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Barbara Holland

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Margaret Millar

I've had a bunch of accidents. If you hunt, you're gonna have some accidents.

Boo Weekley

Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

Ernest Greenwood

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

Dejan Stojanovic

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

Mario Puzo

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

Pablo Picasso

There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it and do something with it.

Helen Frankenthaler

Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot.

Shelby Harris

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