Occasions Quote by Thornton Wilder

“Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.”

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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on…

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“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as…

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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in…

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

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“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.”

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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of…

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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

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“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose the poverty of his general ideas; he never permits the conversation to move toward philosophical principles. Men of his type so dread all deliberation that they glory in the practice of the instantaneous decision. They think…

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“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and…

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A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is…

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THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On…

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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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

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

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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

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Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout…

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Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be…

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The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured…

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