Incidental Quotes

55 quotes by 53 authors

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends… — David Abram
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something. — Whittaker Chambers
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination. — Karen Lord
The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on… — Marshall McLuhan
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental… — Arthur Conan Doyle
What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten… — Luke Davies
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily… — Pope Benedict XVI
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… — Arthur Eddington
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. — Lydia M. Child
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding. — George Santayana
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for… — Rachel Zoe
A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do… — Benjamin Disraeli
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is… — John Henry Newman
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never… — Samuel Johnson
But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is… — Philip Gulley
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think… — Peace Pilgrim

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