Quotes About Memorable Occasions

#1. Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.

Simon Kuznets

#2. Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

Nancy Kress

#3. The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

B.C. Forbes

#4. Yet despite how he's drawn to danger, how it thrives within him, or maybe because of it, the dark and wicked side of me softens at the feel of his lips on my skin.

A.G. Howard

#5. Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#6. Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

Greg Behrendt

#7. I want happiness. Stability. Some career milestones to be proud of, people around me who make me laugh, and the ability to go to bed each night and think, 'I made a difference for someone.

Tawna Fenske

#8. I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

Steve Wozniak

#9. Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#10. It is possible to argue that the true business of faith is not to produce emotional conviction in us, but to teach us to do without it.

Ronald Knox

#11. I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

Michel Houellebecq

#12. Love can't be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other.

Donald Miller

#13. You have to know, from the moment I saw you outside Paradise High, I knew. I knew we were going to fall in love. And I've never regretted even a second of it. Not even now. I love you with all my heart. I always will. It was ... it was all worth it. - Sarah Hart

Pittacus Lore

#14. Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare

#15. I'm working on the intricacies of details of maneuvers that he still doesn't even know the names of.

Frank Mir

#16. Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

Jeremy Lin

#17. In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.

Pema Chodron

#18. The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey's speech proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events.

Barbara W. Tuchman