Occasions Quotes

1024 Occasions quotes by 788 unique authors

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not… — C.S. Lewis
As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps… — P.G. Wodehouse
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated… — Susanna Clarke
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. — Truman Capote
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary. — Thornton Wilder
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek… — Markus Zusak
On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often… — Jeffrey R. Holland
There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape,… — Kazuo Ishiguro
You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than… — Joss Whedon
When I was a kid, my mom once told me that God was an artist and how on occasion He’d throw a bucketful of paint… — Kristina McMorris
If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In… — Neal Shusterman
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. — Louisa May Alcott
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things… — Anne Bronte
Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,… — William Shakespeare
Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they… — Jack McDevitt
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions,… — Norton Juster
The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations… — Martin Luther
There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered… — William James
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.… — Oscar Wilde
Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you." And then we're… — Lauren Oliver
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain
Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and… — John Donne
He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound… — Graham Greene

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