Incidental Quotes

55 Incidental quotes by 53 unique authors

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
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
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
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature. — Anton Chekhov
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
Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action? — Haruki Murakami
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
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
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
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
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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