Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no… — Jonathan Swift 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
Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is… — Harriet McBryde 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
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
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
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
Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure… — Alphonsus Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us… — William James Copy Share Image
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
There are situations where you can either rise to the occasion or you can feel sorry for yourself. Really that's within your… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I'm the oldest, I have the most experience, and I'm the best looking [betwin brothers]. I've been told that on numerous occasions. — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that… — J. J. Johnson Copy Share Image
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish… — Emile M. Cioran 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
Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image