Incidents Quotes

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

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 Walkman.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

[Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to see that.

I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

Incidents should not govern policy;
but,
policy incidents.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in every circumstance and incident.

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ].

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

All I do is see all these incidents of [Hillary Clinton's] coughing all the time. I don't know what it is.

Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.

We have also seen this spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country right now. What should President-Elect [Donald] Trump do to get that under control?

There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.

The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.