#accident

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. ↗

— Carl Levin

#accidental #child #critical #guns #involving

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it? ↗

— Eric Liu

#ask #birth #citizenship #conferred #denial

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#continuation #dubbed #i #integral #longer

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse. ↗

— James Longstreet

#bad #battle #being #honest #many

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#autism #become #bus #cured #i

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#felt #i #me #never #nothing

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#act #calculated #career #comes #i

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. ↗

— Vic Morrow

#because #dangerous #explosions #flowers #four

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. ↗

— A. J. Muste

#attack #cannot #certain #certain way #concerned

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#almost #being #books #case #coincidence