Incident Quotes

188 Incident quotes by 158 unique authors

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
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 you’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
In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had… — Lynn G. Robbins
In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans,… — Jane Fonda
The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced. It's one thing for me to be mistaken… — Barack Obama
The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach… — Heber J. Grant
... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although… — Nicholas von Hoffman
A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often… — Henry Petroski
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation… — Charlotte Bronte
Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest… — Erskine Caldwell
I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been… — Shari Arison
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud. — Douglas MacArthur
If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork… — S. J. Perelman
Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone. — Nikki Giovanni
Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such… — Agatha Christie

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