Incidental Quotes
55 Incidental quotes by 53 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
— Lydia M. Child
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Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables…
— Simon Sinek
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Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
— Anton Chekhov
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At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
— Haruki Murakami
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It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think…
— Eve Ensler
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As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only…
— Thomas Ligotti
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For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their…
— Paul Auster
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A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are…
— Herbert Muschamp
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Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be…
— Charlie Pierce
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