#occasions

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#be happy #certain #change #constitute #departure

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#how #insane #know #man #occasions

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#adjustment #after #case #close #couple

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#fishing #occasions #only #prayer #presidents

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. ↗

— Herman Melville

#call #certain #his #joke #life

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#director #film #film set #find #go

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#cakes #celebrate #enjoy #food #great

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#appears #been #curious #darwinian #darwinian theory

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#discretion #judgment #occasions #required #upon