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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. -- James Herriot
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. -- Harold Nicolson
Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything. -- Pete Townshend
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. -- Walter Bagehot
In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire. -- Leigh Steinberg
Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress. -- Chester Himes
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians. -- Jerry Spinelli
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge. -- Jurnee Smollett
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. -- Hans Christian Andersen
The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents. -- Ellen Ochoa
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? -- Henry James
I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents. -- Richard Hammond
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. -- Elizabeth I
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
I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers. -- Barbara Lee
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 Green
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. -- Hu Shih
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
There stand out in my life many incidents in my youth, of wonderful inspiration and power through men preaching the gospel in the spirit of testimony and prayer. -- Heber J. Grant
From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it. -- Vidya Balan
I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any. -- Maurice Ashley
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment. -- Elliott Abrams
A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe. -- Jefferson Han
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 Emin
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
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights -- Hideki Tojo
My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that. -- Fay Wray
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. -- Maurice Ashley
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
Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions. -- Vinnie Jones
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. -- Chen Ning Yang
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. -- Michael Palin
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think. -- Dennis Quaid
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. -- William Graham Sumner
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. -- Dale Carnegie
I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why. -- Yuvraj Singh
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself. -- George Carey
It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal. -- Eknath Easwaran
The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis. -- Brendan I. Koerner
Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable. -- Ndamukong Suh
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
Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid. -- Lynda Resnick
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed. -- Barack Obama
Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference. -- Amisha Patel
Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960, Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should 'get off that race question.' -- Patricia Stephens Due
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents -- Aristotle
Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents -- Orhan Pamuk
Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window. -- Mod Sun
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. -- Elie Wiesel
Our emotions Are only "incidents" In the effort to keep day and night together. -- T. S. Eliot
International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents. -- Russell Brand
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. -- Herodotus
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. -- Joseph Jacobs
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. -- Roald Dahl
There are some nasty, nasty incidents taking place in the world, but [it's] much better than it used to be. -- Richard Branson
There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election. -- Vivek Shraya
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. -- Richard Hell
Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents. -- Andrew Flintoff
Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. -- Trevor Noah
I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ]. -- Rudy Giuliani
Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified. -- Marvin J. Ashton
All I do is see all these incidents of [Hillary Clinton's] coughing all the time. I don't know what it is. -- Rudy Giuliani
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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
We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem. -- James Hunt
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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
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!" -- George Carlin
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century -- Max Beerbohm
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.... -- Samuel Johnson
We have also seen this spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country right now. What should President-Elect [Donald] Trump do to get that under control? -- George Stephanopoulos
Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,. -- Bennie Thompson
I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence ... my government will ensure there is complete freedom of faith. -- Narendra Modi
Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own. -- Jon Krakauer
Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that it was made. -- Tom Kite
Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds. -- William McChesney Martin
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents? -- Jackson Katz
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems! -- Charles Stross
I think the president-elect [Donald trump] also supports anything we can do to put an end to these sorts of incidents from taking place in our country. -- Reince Priebus
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union... -- Andres Segovia
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end. -- Norman Lock
Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups -- just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account, -- Mark Hall
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island. -- Brigitte Bardot
And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later... -- Kazuo Ishiguro
None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel. -- Anthony Albanese
I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things. -- Harvey Pekar
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it. -- Aristotle
When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters. -- Jonathan Meades
Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind. -- Douglas MacArthur
I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell -- Imtiaz Ali
There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret. -- H. P. Lovecraft
I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life. -- Patrick Stewart
It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined. -- Tracy Chevalier
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close. -- William Cowper
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them. -- Diablo Cody
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
[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here. -- Kevin Sessums
Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination. -- Charlie Chaplin
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences. -- Gene Wolfe
I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents. -- Brice Marden
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. -- Aristotle
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom. -- Elsa Maxwell
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help. -- Napoleon Hill
What about those [Donald] Trump supporters out there and we've seen several incidents of this, with racially-charged intimidation of students and things like that? Doesn't President-Elect Trump have some responsibility to say something about that? -- George Stephanopoulos

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