Occasional Quotes

296 quotes by 261 authors

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
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
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better. — Dick Cheney
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
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
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia. — Kenneth Hare
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. — Juhani Pallasmaa
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. — John Ruskin
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
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
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
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. — Oswald Mosley
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
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
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
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
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
Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances. — Sam Horn
If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor. — Groucho Marx
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

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