Top 342 Incident Quotes & Sayings

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

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

I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

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

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

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

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

I believe every citizen feels the same way about the Sewol Ferry incident.

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 tree. Still, the incident had given me a dangerous reputation. The story had gained legendary status, and I liked to imagine that it was still being told around campfires late at night. Judging by the look on the girl's face, it was.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

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.

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?

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

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of 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.

If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

Blind Curve, the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.

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 did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying to erase their own inadequacy or unhappiness by transferring it to you. It won't make the incident go away, but it's one thing you can do to reduce the pain.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

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

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

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

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

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

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.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

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

It seems that, every several months, you have to expect there is going to be a terrorist incident or that there could be a terrorist incident somewhere. Right away, you're thinking, 'What are the consequences? Is this the first part of a larger attack? Is it coordinated, or a lone wolf?'

Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

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

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

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

I don't agree that the Somnath Bharti incident has been an embarrassment.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

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

It is disappointing to see cricket being targeted after the Pulwama incident.

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

And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

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

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.