Occasional Quotes - Page 2

• A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

  Oswald Mosley

  Risk, Mind, Prophet

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.238, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• 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.

  John H. Johnson

  People, Black, Minorities

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• Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Issues, Citizens, World

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• Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

  Oliver Lodge

  Survival, Matter, Way

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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• There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Typewriters, People

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• Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Years, Trying

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• Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Men, History, Apathy

  "The Columbia Book of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 900), 1993.

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• A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

  Johannes Tauler

  Religious, Exercise, Meditation

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• German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

  Brian Lumley

  Real, Knowing, Thrill

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• It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Men, Honor

  "The Rambler No. 68" by Samuel Johnson, November 10, 1750.

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• Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

  Mario Lopez

  Drama, Balance, Comedy

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• Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Retirement

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• Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Teacher, Retirement, Health

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• Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.

  Ray Birdwhistell

  Communication, Being Alone, Men

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• I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Reading, Years

  John Quincy Adams (1970). “The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814”, Arno Pr

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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Party, Believe

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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• Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Heart, Snow

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.430, Courier Corporation

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• An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.

  Brandon Mull

  Feelings, Normal, Negative

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

  John Green

  Roots, Dating, Would Be

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.85, Penguin

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• Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Attitude, Moving

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• I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

  Kenneth Hare

  Insomnia, Cures

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• Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Mean, Europe

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• We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

  Walter Lippmann

  Freedom, People, Support

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Cat, Space

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.479, Bantam

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• His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Doors, Practice, Addiction

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “His Last Bow”, p.106, Arthur Conan Doyle

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