Top 23 Social Occasions Quotes
#2. I missed the currency of ideas. In London we had been part of a wide circle of solicitors' families, and social occasions had been mentally stimulating as well as entertaining.
Tracy Chevalier
#3. I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions.
Louisa Hall
#4. The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.
Melinda Blau
#5. We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.
John A. Lejeune
#6. Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
Robert A. Heinlein
#7. And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be
living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got
you invited to the very best social occasions.
Terry Pratchett
#8. Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
Umberto Eco
#9. Catherine, who was extremely modest, had no desire to shine, and on most social occasions, as they are called, you would have found her lurking in the background.
Henry James
#10. I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
Taylor Phinney
#11. On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.
Jed Rubenfeld
#12. He suddenly became convinced that if he didn't do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.
John Boyne
#13. To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
Vance Havner
#14. I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.
Joe Gibbs
#15. The major point at which his reason and his sense of humor left him was when he approached the question of what people were really supposed to do with their time on Earth. He
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#17. On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation.
David Cannadine
#18. I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
Anita Hill
#19. Part of me wants to make this boy bruise, bleed, and sob, and part of me wants to soothe him and care for him. The tipically complex yearnings of the kinkily queer.
Jeff Mann
#20. On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person."
Jon Ronson
#21. Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.
Tom Paulin
#22. It is why I bother with you," he said. "I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
Gregory Crewdson
