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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy 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.'

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

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.

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