Occasions When Quotes
70 quotes by 66 authors
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Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the…
— Karen Chance
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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
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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
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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
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There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
— Alexander Pushkin
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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
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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
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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
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It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.
— Dorothy Dunnett
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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly…
— Nikolai Gogol
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He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen†navigation, which was simply to find…
— Douglas Adams
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It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving…
— Galt Niederhoffer
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It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
— Brendan Behan
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There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information.…
— Andy Stanley
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My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all…
— David Henry Hwang
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they…
— Henry Walter Bates
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The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.
— Sister Parish
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Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact…
— Bob Schaffer
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