Incident Quotes

188 Incident quotes by 158 unique authors

If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it… — Epictetus
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. — Victor Hugo
I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism â€” ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from… — William De Morgan
Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world.… — Grenville Kleiser
I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and… — George H. W. Bush
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident,… — Anton Seidl
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential… — Louis D. Brandeis
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported… — Brooke Westcott
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and… — Nikola Tesla
It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzianâ€”many other… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that… — James Abourezk
As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident. — Peter Green
Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world… — Hilary Thayer Hamann
Sometimes all youâ€™ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident. — Hilary Thayer Hamann
I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. — Michael Servetus
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what… — Elbert Hubbard
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the… — Fernando Pessoa
The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had… — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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