Famous quotes containing the words searches and/or incident:
“When a person doesnt understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesnt search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesnt understand.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“I teazed him with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness. A moth having fluttered round the candle, and burnt itself, he laid hold of this little incident to admonish me; saying, with a sly look, and in a solemn but quiet tone, That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.”
—James Boswell (17401795)