Incident Quotes

188 quotes by 163 authors

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful… — Dale Carnegie
Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace… — Shirin Ebadi
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every… — Dannion Brinkley
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes… — William Shakespeare
We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java… — Cael Sanderson
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before… — Christiaan Barnard
There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ. — Brooke Westcott
The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major… — Paul Bremer
It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American… — Richard M. Nixon
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their… — James Madison
In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government. — James Madison
The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered… — Edgar Mitchell
I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the… — Edgar Mitchell
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all,… — Florence Nightingale
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will… — Rabih Alameddine
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. — Hans Christian Andersen
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of… — William Graham Sumner

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