I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Historic accounts of the lives of great masters have told of rainbows and other special signs, like the rain of flowers, and… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Life . . . is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in… — Robert Scheid Copy Share Image
It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness... — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three… — Don Adams Copy Share Image
my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. — John Weitz Copy Share Image
Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour. — John Vance Cheney Copy Share Image
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing! — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
