Incidents Quotes

• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Future, Men

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.

  Judd Apatow

  Girl, Stars, Lost Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning

  Arlene Goldbard

  Writing, Giving, Miracle

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• If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

  Epictetus

  Irritated, Remember, Judgment

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Agony, Feelings, Misery

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

  Anton Seidl

  Mean, Simple, Horny

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press

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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. Simpson

  Know How, Knows, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, Philosophy, Ubuntu

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• I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

  Carl Barks

  Book, Plot, Stories

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• I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Husband, Kayaking, Care

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

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Years, Aftermath, Wells

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• My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Biblical, Giving, Effort

  Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”

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• Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Effort, Together

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.184, Faber & Faber

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• For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

  James Herriot

  Lunch, Years, Wife

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Commitment, Ideas

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• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  W. H. Murray

  Commitment, Misunderstood, Genius

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• Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

  Steven Pressfield

  Moving, Ignorance, Commitment

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Commitment, Political

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Evil, Secret

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

  Roald Dahl

  Small Numbers, Life Is, Made

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.10, Penguin

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• We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

  Layne Staley

  Kids, Eye, Shoes

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• After watching the video, the senseless shooting and taking of Walter Scott's life was absolutely unnecessary and avoidable. My heart aches for the family and our North Charleston community. I will be watching this case closely.

  Tim Scott

  Life, Heart, Community

  FaceBook post by Tim Scott from Apr 08, 2015

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

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Determination, Character

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Lovely, Stories, Life Is

  Hans Christian Andersen (2013). “The True Story of My Life”, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Reign, Chance

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

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