Occassion Quotes

#1. Rise to the occassion which is life!

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#2. Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake! (Ms. Pole)

Elizabeth Gaskell

#3. Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor", said I, but quietly as the occassion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".

William Golding

#4. His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.

Kristin Cashore

#5. On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.

Ned Sublette

#6. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.

Brandon Bays

#8. Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

Rushworth Kidder

#9. If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

Richard Bach

#10. Henrietta's cells have now been living outside her body far longer than they ever lived inside it,

Rebecca Skloot

#11. You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

Daniel Tammet

#12. I hope you know that everything I say about you I could also say about myself.
I hope that's clear.

Sienna McQuillen

#13. Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Nicholas Breton

#14. Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Mark Twain

#15. I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

Michael De Luca

#16. Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#17. People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill.

Shaun Jeffrey

#18. I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.

Mike Gordon

#19. The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#20. I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

Patrick Kavanagh

#21. No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

William James