“Things happen to people by accident.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess
Source: A Little Princess
“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
Source: The Godfather
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Harold W. Percival book Thinking and Destiny
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 3, Objections to the law of thought, p. 48
Context: Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.
“We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
"There There"
Lyrics, Hail to the Thief (2003)
“Marriage was something I thought happened only to other people, like fatal traffic accidents.”
George Alec Effinger book A Fire in the Sun
Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 289).
“Burns is "an accident that happens again and again and again."”
Conrad Burns (1935–2016) United States Marine
Bob Herbert http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=1932
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“Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.”
Philip B. Crosby (1926–2001) Quality guru
Philip B. Crosby (1995), Reflections on Quality.
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
There are no records of Roosevelt having made such a statement, and this is most likely a misquotation of the widely reported comment he made in a speech at the Citadel (23 October 1935):
: Yes, we are on our way back — not just by pure chance, my friends, not just by a turn of the wheel, of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we are planning it that way. Don't let anybody tell you differently.
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