Famous Quotes & Sayings

People thinking that hiding a firearm in the closet, underneath the bed or somewhere else where they think it is inaccessible to a child is not proper storage. Children are naturally curious. They might find a firearm that you thought was safely hidden, and that's how accidents happen.

Of course, we are thinking of them and their families but there are accidents at home in front of schools. There are reckless drivers at home.

Leila Janah

Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.

Jim Hall

No one wants to get to the bottom of this mystery quicker than those investigating this accident -- both here and in Egypt,

Coach Sutton has been dealing with constant back and hip problems the last couple of seasons and after last Friday?s accident he feels this is the best decision for his health and for the team.

Coal production will not resume at the Sago Mine until our internal investigation of the accident is completed and we can share those findings with the families and co-workers of those lost in that tragic accident. We hope to conclude those efforts in the very near future.

Any move trying to cover up the cause of the accident and any passive attitude toward the probe are deemed deception and a defiance of law.

Any lost-time accident we take as a serious injury. I wouldn't refer to any injury as minor.

An important focus of our investigation will be to understand what was different about conditions on Jan. 31 that could have caused the major accident that occurred.

Annika might be the best player, but Michelle is the biggest story. She's drawing in the accidental fan, much like Tiger did when he first came out. The thing that bothers me is, it seems like every anti-Michelle comment I heard always mentioned her age. We're not involved in age-discrimination here. I wondered if there would be the same type of negative reaction if we gave an exemption to a 26-year-old woman from Nebraska.

Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It's) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history,

Anything that will help alleviate the amount of traffic will greatly reduce not only cars, but hopefully accidents.

Anything that can keep a driver from being distracted has the potential to avoid accidents and then save lives.

Anything that can keep a driver from being distracted can prevent accidents and save lives, and the safety of our Sailors is important.

The teams are working together, ... Obviously, the forensics has a higher priority. But you try to do it in a way that you give that priority without disadvantaging the accident investigation.

Jodi Picoult

The thing that most people didn't understand...was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

Adequate sleep is associated with good health and performance, as well as fewer accidents -- an even more critical issue when children reach adolescence and need to be aware of the dangers of drowsy driving.

Space technology can and does fail on occasions. Our feeling is that as you escalate the number of these launches, sooner or later there's gonna be a tragic, tragic accident with this stuff.

Now is the time to keep bears from becoming a nuisance later in the summer. Bears that wander near residential areas in search of food are less likely to stay or return if they do not find anything rewarding. Conversely, if bears find food in your backyard they quickly learn to associate residential areas with food and begin to spend more time in those areas. Encounters between humans and bears increase, as does property damage, the risk of human injury and vehicle accidents involving bears.

No matter how hard it is, true love is also the result of an accident in the dream of our life, and that accident is an event that happens in our soul. This event can be in another transcendental reality a volcano, a butterfly, a mountain or any other possible image we cannot even imagine.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.

Dylan Baker

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

Safety is the foundation of our business. People rely on us to offer safe train and bus service to them. I think we had the appropriate safety measures in place, but oftentimes accidents are accidents.

Safety and loss helps prevent indirect costs of training temporary employees and clerical work because 80 percent of accidents are caused by unsafe acts.

David Bradley

Rollover risk has been known for a long time, and it hasn't hurt S/UV sales. Everyone always assumes that an accident will happen to someone else and not to them.

David Bradley

Rollover risk has been known for a long time, and it hasn't hurt S/UV sales, ... Everyone always assumes that an accident will happen to someone else and not to them.

Right now there are around 1.3 billion accidents causing 40,000 fatalities each year. That's the equivalent of two jumbo jets full of passengers crashing every day.

President (Hosni) Mubarak wants an immediate probe into the causes of the accident of the Al-Salam 98 ferry and guarantees that other similar ships comply with safety regulations.

Mark Rosenker

The Safety Board believes that had an automatic train control system ... been in place at the time of the accidents, the accidents could have been avoided.

These accident ratios tell me as a traffic engineer that there's something we need to look at.

Don Kelly

The same thing goes for wreckers, ... As a result, it's taking our officers a lot longer to work an accident and a lot longer before they can answer another call.

I've seen so many accidents occur, because people aren't paying attention to what's going on in front of them. While they're looking over, their vehicle is still moving, and what happens? ... they're involved in an accident.

It was the way I fell. It was a freak accident I guess.