Incident Quotes
188 Incident quotes by 158 unique authors
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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
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
— Victor Hugo
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I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from…
— William De Morgan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other…
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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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
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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
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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
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Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
— Michael Servetus
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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
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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
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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
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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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