“I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative. — Joe Garagiola Copy Share Image
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential… — James Madison 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
THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The three-piece suit has become sort of my trademark. You don't see them much anymore. It has several benefits: You may be… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult.… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There may be some who wish that he would have taken the occasion to first comment on the Brexit vote, but they're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
I have had the advantage of the opportunity to meet with Mr. Trump on several occasions. And my experience is that he's… — Kris Kobach 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
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Me? I like wearing a condom. It means I'm having sex. I already spend most of my time NOT wearing one. It's… — David Mazzucchelli 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
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
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
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
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
I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as… — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
