I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might… — Thomas Secker Copy Share Image
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers,… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in… — William Law Copy Share Image
The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing'… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
I did meet Steve Wozniak on several occasions leading up to the filming of the movie. It wasn’t really written how he… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Google Books Excuses for All Occasions: Alibis, Apologies, and Cop-Outs That Can Get You Out of (or Into) Trouble By Steven D.… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
“Erase from your vocabulary the word “someday.” Do not save things for “special occasions.” Take into account the fact that every day… — Rodolfo Costa Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel like they have to state something in a certain way because so-and-so might be around on… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will. — Christie Brinkley Copy Share Image
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated… — Joseph Brant Copy Share Image
I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends… — Tanit Phoenix Copy Share Image
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
For true worship, only God and the human soul are necessary. It does not depend upon times, or seasons, or occasions. Anywhere… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in… — Li Peng Copy Share Image
Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has… — Tony Greig Copy Share Image
At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“If I waited for a proper occasion to dress up, I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and… — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
Mesmerizing! I've heard Jim Rohn speak on numerous occasions and I still listen intently to every word he says. His delivery is… — Tony Alessandra Copy Share Image
Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
