#accident

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#am #beethoven #birth #i #i am

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#across #arizona #automobile #come #devastating

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#action #alter #done #ever #evil

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#american #apologize #canadians #car #easily

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#change #friend #happen #plan #should

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#character #characters #command #context #create

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it. ↗

— Norman Lear

#around #bad #gotta #hang #hear

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#brother-in-law #brought #coverage #fact #fiancee