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
It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything. — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It… — Hannah Webster Foster Copy Share Image
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer… — Harry Jones Copy Share Image
Ron Hubbard was trying to get people out of their body with his HCA courses, but frankly, he was failing badly. When… — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively,… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time… — Martin E. Marty 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
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage… — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
