Quotes: Accident

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn’t see him for 18 months before he died, but I’d met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we’ve never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.