Incidents quotes
47 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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 ."
"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."
"By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents"
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"Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents."
"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."
"I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath."
"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.'"
"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 describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true."
"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."
"he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour."
"Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents"
"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!""
"History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume."
