Auspicious Occasion Quotes

#1. I don't think tea will quite do, we need something a little more fortifying on such an auspicious occasion. Hot chocolate with fresh cream, that's the thing.

Menna Van Praag

#2. If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. Don't just conform; ask questions.
Don't just believe if it isn't your truth.
Don't follow dogma; it is blindness.
Just love; don't kill to go to heaven.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. And you were wrong in the way you

Nicholas Sparks

#6. Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.

David Letterman

#7. Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.

Craig Silvey

#8. Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

William Shakespeare

#9. The Law was not how Israelites achieved salvation - it was how they showed loyalty to the God they believed in.

Michael S. Heiser

#10. I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

China Mieville

#11. On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, ... they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

C.S. Lewis

#12. A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not where ships belong.

Woody Allen