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Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
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Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
As for my personal style, I like comfort a lot, like jeans and T-shirts. Having been a trainer for so long, I… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States,… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations… — Lauren Collins Copy Share Image
There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly! Patience, hard work, dedication, never giving… — Jesse Taylor Copy Share Image
Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make… — Steve Kanaly Copy Share Image
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again,… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
