Incident Quotes
188 quotes by 163 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.
— Brooke Westcott
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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
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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
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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
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In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.
— James Madison
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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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
Who Wrote These Incident Quotes
163 authors contributed a total of 188 Incident Quotes, led by these top contributors: