Incident Quotes

188 Incident quotes by 158 unique authors

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth. — Jessica Savitch
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a… — Richelle Mead
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than… — James Kahn
Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then,… — Larry McMurtry
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that… — Chuck Palahniuk
You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my… — J R Ward
The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl… — Gore Vidal
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected… — Virginia Woolf
The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care… — Donald Miller
Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit… — Bryce Courtenay
Don’t worry, we’re not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we’re not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that. — Rick Riordan
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every… — Sivananda
The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked… — Howard Thurman
We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet. — Rick Riordan
Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and… — Jeannette Walls
he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief… — John Berendt

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