Accident Quotes (850 Quotes)


    Investigators will closely examine the maintenance records to determine any information that helps us understand the flight load history of the aircraft, any repairs made to this area of the wing or any other historical information that helps us determine the sequence of events that lead to this tragic accident.




    I begin today on a very sad note, ... I have just learned that ... President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia has been killed in an accident with his staff as he traveled from Skopje for a meeting in Mostar.



    If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.


    As with any airplane accident, there are a lot of broken bones, a lot of compressions, loss of consciousness from being knocked around, some head injuries -- that sort of thing,



    The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom ones relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.



    We had some significant repair bills last year and we ended up replacing one truck due to an accident. Hopefully, we won't have to touch it and we'll be ready for the start of next year.

    The combination of additional law enforcement, increased education and a boating public that has become more aware have made this a pretty safe area, ... We have had a few minor boating accidents, including one after the Jimmy Buffett concert (at Riverbend Music Center Aug. 21), but nothing serious.

    Some mistakenly misread the mercy and graciousness of God. For instance, some partial believers are always scolding God, or disregarding Him, because of the observable and lamentable consequences of our misuse of God's gift to us of moral agency. It is as if a teenage son, given his first car, promptly had an accident with resulting pain, suffering, and expense, and the errant son then railed at his father for permitting the suffering resulting from the son's misuse of the gift of the automobile. Granted, in defense of the analogy, mortal parents ought not to give youngsters automobiles too soon, and then only when they have provided wise counsel, driver training, and so on. But there still comes a time when, if they are ever to drive alone, trained teenagers must be left alone at the wheel. The principle is the same with us in the second estate.


    Mining is dangerous, but it is work habits that make it unsafe. When there's an accident you need to learn from it, so you can make sure it doesn't happen again. You learn from the accident so it doesn't repeat itself.


    You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bow string being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly being let go...

    I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

    Sexual scandals are especially effective against Republicans who can then also be accused of hypocrisy inasmuch as they're always spouting off about morality and junk like that. Of course, some personal issues such as former Klan membership or leaving the scene of a fatal accident are off limits for obvious reasons.




    In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it.

    I'm not some cold-hearted person who doesn't care. I do care. Even though it was an accident, I'm sorry for what happened. I still feel guilt like there was something I could have done.


    Michael Barr, lead instructor at the University of Southern California's aviation safety program, said that an extra few hundred feet in which to slow down could make the difference between a minor incident and a fiery accident. You just don't put a gully at the end of a runway, ... You've got to have a safety zone.

    Boats are historically a very safe mode of transportation, ... Those boats on Lake George - both large and small - have run together every day for 30 years. It sounds to me like it was exactly the wrong combination of events that led to an unpredictable accident.


    When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.


    But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, How did it all begin, science answers, Probably by an accident. To the question, How will it all end, science answers, Probably by an accident. And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, Why are we here and, to the question, What moral instructions do you give us, the science-god maintains silence.

    Nevertheless adequate design and operational safeguards have to be put in place and tested to ensure that the public, the environment and workers are fully protected in the event of an accident. Lessons learned through many years of successful operations are constantly being incorporated.


    The large number of safety studies indicates that this issue has received a great amount of attention. Unfortunately, many of these studies involve more advocacy than science. It's not that these studies aren't valuable, but they have problems with methodology, statistical analysis and even simple understanding of important terms, such as 'speeding.' In accident data, speeding is defined as both 'traveling faster than the posted limit' and 'traveling too fast for conditions.' Studies often do not differentiate between these definitions.

    It was especially trying on both counts because one was an accident and it might have been prevented, and that was frustrating. On the other side, losing two people was just devastating anyway you look at it. I think those were the lowest points the guard experienced this year.



    It was like an accident. It can't be helped when you finish a race that way. I've already got this strong feeling of avenging this disappointment in the next Olympics.

    Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.


    The current situation is unacceptable. As we repopulate, stuff will happen. People using chainsaws will cut themselves, there will be auto accidents, and people will have heart attacks. We have to get up and running.

    If we are charging someone with motor vehicle homicide, then obviously we would be saying if alcohol was involved. But if there was an accident where someone was killed and it didn't seem as if anyone would be charged, I don't know.


    She loved to travel, visiting places such as Alaska, Europe, Florida and California, with her daughter Carol Ann Marsh. Marsh was on the boat Sunday with Beamish but survived the accident. She was a feisty woman, ... She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.


    I just realize I'm getting a lot of this stuff because of the work I'm putting in. I know it's not by mistake or accident. It has to do with the kind of energy I put into my game. Good things happen when you put work into things.



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