#incident

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. ↗

— Herman Melville

#incidentally #know #let us #our #out

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

— Chuck Grassley

#bypass #consent #constitutional #decision #incident

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

#became #care #certain #certain extent #clear

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

— James Herriot

#bore #funny #i #incidents #lunch

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#afar #battle #battles #few #fight

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

— Hans Christian Andersen

#happy #incident #life #life is a #lovely

I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#got #i #incidents #off #say

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

#compare #example #fifty #for example #forty

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

#been #bring #certainly #chess #down

Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it. ↗

— John Gilling

#death #incident #learn #mold #producing