I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read. — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I hope through The L Word to become an honorary member of the gay tribe. I cherish the thought that some young… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image