Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville Collision/incident

Famous quotes containing the words collision and/or incident:

    I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous—a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision invoked against everything that had previously been believed, demanded, sanctified. I am no man, I am dynamite!
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
    Henry James (1843–1916)