Quotes About Momentous Occasions

#1. WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc ...

Ambrose Bierce

#2. From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. You thought giving a depressed prostitute a copy of Pretty Woman might help?

Isa K.

#4. The Memorial Dedication was a momentous occasion

Tommy Hilfiger

#5. Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up ... I don't know what I should do: two states of mind in me ...

Sappho

#6. The hierarchy which may not have the same rights but certainly has equal responsibility as all the other voices. This, of course, is much easier to achieve in music than in life; how difficult it is in the world to create equality within hirarchy!

David Barenboim

#7. Anything that gets in the way of my focus to create gets cut out of my life. It's not easy. Sometimes it's family. Sometimes it's friends. Sometimes it's the ability to have a relationship.

John Zorn

#8. And to the Pig he said, "What's the meaning of life?"

"You know, a friend of yours was asking me the same thing the other day," said the Transcendent Pig, ambling over, sitting down, and looking Ponch over in an amiable way. "Is asking," it added.

Diane Duane

#9. our days are nothing more than our lives in miniature.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

Helmut Schoeck

#11. Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what.

Carol Piner

#12. I love all of our subpodcasts.

Scott Aukerman

#13. Sometimes those silent gestures mean the most. They're the glue that holds our fragile lives together.

H.M. Ward

#14. All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

Seneca The Younger

#15. Bleed with me and you will forever be my brother.

Laura Kaye

#16. I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here

Paul Romer

#17. Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Kristin Cashore