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Quotes About Incidents

It's hard to explain to people the incredible emotional burden officers carry after enduring these types of incidents, especially when children are involved.
~ James Patterson
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
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
I realize that what I have written so far about supernatural horror stories sounds as if my goal in writing them is to demoralize and depress my readers. I assure you that nothing could be further from the truth. In my literary philosophy, if story fails to entertain readers, to captivate them with characters and incidents they never could have imagined themselves, then that story has failed.
~ Thomas Ligotti
It is an interesting fact that in history there are recorded numerous incidents in which factors present themselves which are not classed as normal mental activities, and which cannot be classed, justly, as abnormal, but which we may call supernormal, inasmuch as they are the experiences of perfectly normal people, brought out under the stress of extraordinary circumstances.
~ Thomas Parker Boyd
WITH THREE WEEKS to go in the Florida governor's race, the Tallahassee morning newspaper ran the following headline: 2 HEADS EXPLODE IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS
~ Tim Dorsey
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
~ Harold Nicolson
Accidents happen all the time.
~ Lemony Snicket
There had been incidents meant to remind them that they were being watched. Yet there had also been more arrests and darker threats and cruel floggings. The religious authorities had no intention of letting the group continue unchallenged. When any possible reason for an offense could be generated, they took full advantage.
~ Janette Oke
But to be God—which of course meant to have been God all along—he had to justify every event in his past, define every action in terms that made it consistent with godhood…there could no longer be any incidents that were too uncomfortable to remember.
~ Tim Powers
victim-resolved incidents result in far fewer fatalities than shooter-resolved incidents. Additionally, police-resolved shootings produce more casualties than victim-resolved shootings.
~ Chris Bird
Of course, the morning, every morning, was full of such incidents. That was family life. They were all able to get through the day without receiving any particular wounds; every such thing left its tiny scar, but their infant skins healed with wonderful quickness.
~ Christina Stead
The presence of the problem of man's free will, though unexpressed, is felt at every step of history. All seriously thinking historians have involuntarily encountered this question. All the contradictions and obscurities of history and the false path historical science has followed are due solely to the lack of a solution of that question. If the will of every man were free, that is, if each man could act as he pleased, all history would be a series of disconnected incidents.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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
Great quarrels, it has been well said, arise from small occasions but seldom from small causes.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
~ Herodotus
fucked her when she was too out of it to consent, but that was before consent got fashionable. Those kinds of incidents used to be considered "funny." Even "hilarious." The worse you felt, the louder you laughed. The laughter was necessary because it put you back in charge. You didn't remember, so you created a memory you hoped was the truth.
~ Liane Moriarty
In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I could remember a half-dozen incidents in which I'd come much closer to death, but I could never recall any past moronic stunt that filled me so completely with disgust.
~ Dean Jones
In our many hours of conversation, Gonsalez and his family related dozens of odd incidents to us. These incidents, though they differed from the Gormans' own, convinced us that the ranch was by no means a unique piece of real estate in the area. The family told us about strange Mexican-hat-shaped flying objects that flew and hovered over the ridge a mere hundred yards from their home.
~ Unknown
the San Luis Valley has long been the site of well-documented incidents of high strangeness. It is the place where the first publicized case of an animal mutilation occurred in 1967. Not coincidentally, the valley has also been the site of hundreds of UFO sightings over several decades and easily ranks as one of the most intense UFO hot spots on the planet.
~ Unknown
Anything that happen in this world is a part of life.
~ Unknown
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors' imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to events or locales, is entirely coincidental.
~ Unknown
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