quotes about Incidents
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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.
-- Agnes RepplierSource : Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”
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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.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
-- Camille Paglia -
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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
-- Chester Himes -
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.
-- Colum McCann -
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
-- Criss Jami -
I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.
-- Donna Rice Hughes -
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
-- Elie Wiesel -
he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
-- George Eliot -
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
-- John LylySource : John Lyly (1964). “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues & His England”
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Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.
-- John Singer Sargent -
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.'
-- Maya Angelou -
I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
-- Michael Servetus -
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.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram -
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
-- O. J. SimpsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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.
-- Paul Feig -
As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.
-- Peter GreenSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
-- Richard HellSource : "Q&A: Richard Hell Has Gone to Heaven". Interview with Scott Martelle, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2013.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
-- Roald DahlSource : Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.10, Penguin
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If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that.
-- Sherry Argov -
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.
-- Tracey EminSource : Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.
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Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
-- Susan B. Anthony -
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Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?
-- Tobias DantzigSource : Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”