Spirit of place! It is for this we travel to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel that place seen once abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents its habits its breath its name.

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents but grow out of the very essence of religion namely its absolute claims.

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century all natural disasters and all automobile accidents combined.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters relationships and themes it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find the accidents of what you stumble across.

There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

In live action movies you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons nothing contradict what you want to say.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Since you cannot do good to all you are to pay special attention to those who by the accidents of time or place or circumstances are brought into closer connection with you.

To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Fathers are biological necessities but social accidents.

Accidents happen whether they're car accidents friendly fire drug overdoses. Accidents happen and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion because everywhere they walk every day someone reminds them of their loss.

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt but people die in plane crashes lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die some get hurt some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.