George Mikes Quotes

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

I've broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.

We cannot, of course, eliminate all accidents - no industry can do that.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

I think injuries happen. You can prevent a lot of them, but some of them you can't.

It's a dangerous sport, you can get really hurt. God helped me, protected me so I wouldn't have any damage, any serious injury.

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

I’m never without a bandage.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.

When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water.

When I was doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the chain. Even though everybody took care of me, I still got hurt.

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.