Occasional Quotes
296 quotes by 261 authors
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going…
— Gabriel Byrne
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I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's…
— Michael Caine
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Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
— Dick Cheney
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
— Samuel Johnson
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.
— Kenneth Hare
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A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
— Juhani Pallasmaa
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
— John Ruskin
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception…
— George Santayana
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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our…
— John Owen
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Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the…
— Francis Galton
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A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
— Oswald Mosley
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The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait…
— Tom Peters
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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.
— Nubar Gulbenkian
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Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.
— Sam Horn
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If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor.
— Groucho Marx
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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a…
— Robert Morrison MacIver
Who Wrote These Occasional Quotes
261 authors contributed a total of 296 Occasional Quotes, led by these top contributors: