Occasional Quotes
Occasional Quote of the day
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.
To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor.
Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.
It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.
I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good
It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.
When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.
Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.
Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.
When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.