Best Occasional Proverbs
296 Occasional quotes by 254 unique authors
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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you.…
— Og Mandino
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And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of…
— David Nicholls
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dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
— John Green
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Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group?…
— Brian K. Vaughan
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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.…
— Wendell Berry
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Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't…
— Carl Sagan
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She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.
— Steig Larsson
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Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
— Augusten Burroughs
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To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat…
— Eugene B. Sledge
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The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.
— Paulo Coelho
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She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.
— Lauren Kate
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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
— Raymond Chandler
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Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is…
— Bill Watterson
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Everyone knows that quote because of the Doors." Jace looked at her blankly. "The Doors. They were a band." "If you say so," he said.…
— Cassandra Clare
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There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library…
— Italo Calvino
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Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.
— Karen Cushman
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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design…
— Connie Willis
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Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak…
— Bill Watterson
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Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan…
— Steig Larsson
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Thanks for looking out for her, Sage. You're okay. For a human." I almost laughed. "Thanks." "You can say it too, you know." I walked…
— Richelle Mead
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An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.
— Brandon Mull
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Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound…
— Lucy Christopher
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