Best Incidents Wisdom
273 Incidents quotes by 229 unique authors
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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
— James Herriot
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
— Henry James
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What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
— Harold Nicolson
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A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier,…
— Joel Osteen
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In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the…
— Dennis Quaid
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Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
— Jessica Savitch
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a…
— Richelle Mead
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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than…
— James Kahn
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Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then,…
— Larry McMurtry
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Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my…
— J R Ward
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The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl…
— Gore Vidal
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So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected…
— Virginia Woolf
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This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings…
— Jerry Spinelli
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The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
— Aristotle
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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave…
— Virginia Woolf
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But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding…
— Elie Wiesel
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