I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great. — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Of all wines, Champagne is the one that is the anytime drink, the panacea for all ills, the best bottle for any… — Serena Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments. — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that… — James Walsh Copy Share Image
War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or… — Ernest Becker 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
This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can… — Christian Dior 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 thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that. This acting job - it… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar… — Ingmar Bergman 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 disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always admired a woman who can dress for all occasions-someo ne who's not fashion crazy,but you always want to look like… — Ralph Lauren 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
I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion. — Raymond Berry 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
So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes… — Troy Glaus Copy Share Image
Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself. — Kenya Hara Copy Share Image
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Roberta Jacobson is in charge of a department within the State Department with which, on other occasions, I have had problems with… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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