Occasions Quotes - Page 20

• I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Errors, Speak

  "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.

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• There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Commitment, Thinking, Politician

  "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.

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• The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.

  Fanny Kemble

  Character, Evil, Soul

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• There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.

  Francine Prose

  Literature

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

  Miroslav Volf

  Giving, Naked, Needs

  Miroslav Volf (2009). “Free of Charge”, p.74, Zondervan

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• What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Leadership, Fall, Play

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.10

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• However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to maintain it. One who has written a good book, is expected on all occasions to "talk like a book." Or, if one has achieved an act of heroism, he is expected to perform acts of heroism for the edification of all who approach him. There are people who can never believe they see a lion unless they hear him roar.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Believe, Book, Mean

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• On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gone, Littles, Repent

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Perfect, Secret, Too Much

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• A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.

  C. S. Lewis

  Expression, People, Feelings

  'The Screwtape Letters' (1942) no. 26

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• There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Saying Less, Balance, Debtors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.

  Bill O'Reilly

  School, Kids, Successful

  "The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families". Book by Bill O'Reilly and Charles Flowers, September 28, 2004.

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• There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

  Bill Vaughan

  Forever, Lasts, Rejoice

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• An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

  Diane Ackerman

  Way, Nuggets, Moments

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• We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Art, Regret

  Letter to Hugh Walpole, August 21, 1913.

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• Historic accounts of the lives of great masters have told of rainbows and other special signs, like the rain of flowers, and of special clouds that appeared, witnessed by people on very special occasions and at auspicious events.

  Jamgon Kongtrul

  Rain, Flower, Clouds

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• Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Use, May, Ends

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• Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Men, Names

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• [Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Saving, He Man

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Aphrodisiac, Truffles

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• No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Conceited, People, Feelings

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• The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Gossip, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.51, Modern Library

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• A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not, on another occasion, indulge its own will.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Yield, Practice, Justice

  "American Federation of Labor (AFL) v. American Sash & Door Co., 335 U.S. 538". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 3, 1949.

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• It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Resent You, Deeds

  Orson Scott Card (2012). “Alvin Journeyman: Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.162, Hachette UK

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