Commit Quote by Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too?”

— Hermann Hesse

“Who are we, to pass judgment on one another. When we have once done the same foolish acts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

— Jeb Bush

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

— Chuck Grassley

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

— Anonymous

The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of…

— Anonymous

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

— Michael Pollan

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

— Bill Vaughan

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with…

— Jon Ronson

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

— Mark Twain

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

— Li Peng