We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Well it's unusual for us to do an endorsement, you know, and the special occasions where you need appointments, but we thought… — Eleanor Smeal 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
I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time… — John Keats Copy Share Image
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there,… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions. — Olivia Palermo Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions. — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among… — David Hume Copy Share Image
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all… — Lord Byron 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
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
A black suit can be classic and timeless and certainly for most occasions. But remember, it's not so much the color of… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your… — Kamla Persad-Bissessar Copy Share Image
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
