Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness... — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture. — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a… — Eric Massa Copy Share Image
Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
A voice in me said, You have to rise to the occasion or the best in you will die. We always have… — Lily Yeh Copy Share Image
The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change… — Howard Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The people that have looked out for me and helped to steer me in the right direction, I just can't thank them… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was at Valencia my wife said that we would win the league. She was right and to mark the occasion… — Rafael Benitez Copy Share Image
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I don't wear dresses all the time - it's nice to save those moments for certain occasions and to make it feel… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour. — John Vance Cheney Copy Share Image
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing! — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such… — William Ellery Channing 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
I grew up in a household where sweets were not given to you whenever you want. It was restricted only to special… — Catherine Tresa Copy Share Image
