Occasionally Quotes
721 Occasionally quotes by 606 unique authors
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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang…
— Emily Dickinson
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You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator.…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness…
— Hermann Hesse
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What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
— Jim Butcher
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If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those…
— Howard Zinn
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LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
— Timothy Leary
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It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in…
— Mark Oliver Everett
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Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to…
— Jonathan Tropper
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Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed…
— Francoise Sagan
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
— Jodi Picoult
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Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and…
— Susan Sontag
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There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.
— Frank O'Hara
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He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does…
— Lynn Kurland
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Brother dear,” I said, “did your soul leave your body while Amos was talking, or did you actually hear him? Egyptian gods real. Red Lord…
— Rick Riordan
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What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and…
— Jack Vance
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Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Don’t worry. It’ll never happen again. You know me, I do date occasionally, but I usually spend at least a few normal, boring days with…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or…
— Douglas Adams
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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
— Oscar Wilde
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The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask…
— Chris Bohjalian
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...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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