Occasions Quotes

1024 Occasions quotes by 788 unique authors

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms. — Kurt Vonnegut
I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it. — Ilona Andrews
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. — Emily Bronte
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it… — Roland Barthes
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.… — Pema Chodron
I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion. — Rex Stout
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are… — Thomas Moore
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the… — Raymond Chandler
He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he… — John Boyne
I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on… — Sophie Kinsella
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not… — William Ellery Channing
... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as… — Mortimer Adler
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,… — James A. Baldwin
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength… — Thomas Hardy
On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his… — Dean Koontz
Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that… — John Kennedy Toole
Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming. — Cassandra Clare
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all… — Haruki Murakami
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could… — Dean Koontz
Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and… — Charlaine Harris
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome… — Napoleon Bonaparte
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to… — Jane Austen
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose.… — Kate Morton

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