#accident

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#discovery #meeting #mind #prepared #prepared mind

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

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

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

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. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#america #city #crime #design #last

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

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#ailments #attention #battalion #claim #come

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#accident #after #back #bad #boxing

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#because #become #champ #family #i