Incident Quotes

188 Incident quotes by 158 unique authors

did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very… — Anna Godbersen
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes… — Tim O'Brien
Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet… — C S Forester
Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have… — Donald Miller
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined. — Arthur Conan Doyle
People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident… — Garth Stein
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...) — Sarah Rees Brennan
This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers… — Garth Stein
Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible,… — Terry Pratchett
In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my… — Rob Sheffield
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. — Condoleezza Rice
If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that. — Sherry Argov
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another.… — Gore Vidal
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to… — Alexander Hamilton
We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without… — Cassandra Clare
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. — Colum McCann
In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted… — Stephen Jay Gould
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I… — H.G. Wells
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't… — Jeannette Rankin
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are… — Epictetus
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which… — John Abbott
My faith in God is unshakeable, even though till date, I have not experienced any miraculous incident that makes me feel the presence of a… — Emraan Hashmi
I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I… — Farnaz Fassihi
I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from… — Eric Holder

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