Best Occasional Quotations
296 Occasional quotes by 254 unique authors
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Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.
— Mariella Frostrup
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The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men…
— Polykarp Kusch
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In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled…
— Laurance Rockefeller
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in,…
— Octavia Butler
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature…
— Augustus William Hare
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Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example,…
— Unknown Author
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Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and…
— Mario Lopez
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Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy,…
— Unknown Author
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Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on…
— Dorothy Draper
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An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he…
— Ogden Nash
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The price for men in motion is the occasional collision...
— Carroll Smith
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A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be…
— Cyril Connolly
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I'm far from being reclusive. I have thirty or forty year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party,…
— Kirk Kerkorian
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The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in…
— Tim Wu
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm…
— Adam Gopnik
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Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks…
— Unknown Author
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A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.
— Charles Krauthammer
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Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we…
— Charles Spurgeon
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While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right…
— Antanas Mockus
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Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
— Og Mandino
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When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme,…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with…
— T. E. D. Klein
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