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  • Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

    Jobs   Blue   Design  
  • 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.

    Believe   Errors   Speak  
    "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.
  • I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.

    Girl   Nice   Thinking  
    "Paging Your Inner-Tween: We're Chatting With Ben Savage (AKA Cory Matthews!)". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. October 18, 2011.
  • I'll smoke weed occasionally, on special occasions like a movie night or something. I like to drink beer but whenever it comes to hard drugs, I really believe that they hurt your body, deplete your energy.

    Weed   Hurt   Believe  
    Source: substreammagazine.com
  • It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.

    Party   Thinking   Views  
    "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.
  • It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and on no occasion can the so-called 'supernatural' be anything else than a completely natural law, though it may, at the moment, be above and beyond the present understanding.

  • When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.349, Cambridge University Press
  • Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

  • You know, the act of feeding someone is the ultimate act of care and affection...sharing yourself with someone else through food. He held another mouthful of cake under her nose. Think about it. We are fed in the Eucharist, by our mothers when we are infants, by our parents as children, by friends at dinner parties, by a lover when we feast on one another's bodies...and on occasion, on another's souls.

    Mother   Children   Party  
  • I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen.

    Believe   Tired   Voice  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Courage mounteth with occasion.

    'King John' (1591-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. 82
  • I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

    Grandmother   Men   White  
    A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA
  • Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

    Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3751, Delphi Classics
  • We must constantly remain in a state of prayer; it is not something we do for just a few minutes now and again, or on certain occasions when we are especially in need. It is extremely important that God can speak to us all the time. This makes it much easier to seek the kingdom of heaven at all times.

  • The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

    Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.643
  • 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.

    Sadness   Reality   Men  
  • Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

    Leadership   Party   Eye  
    Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
  • The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  • I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

    Mother   Order   Singing  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

    Tyrants   Insult   Slave  
    Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.276, Northwestern University Press
  • On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

    Revenge   Hair   Spiders  
  • My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

    Faith   Ambition   Views  
    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin
  • Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely a good news.

    Beach   Doe   News  
    "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, September 2000.
  • Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

  • But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

    Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98
  • Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing
  • Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

  • There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

  • 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.

    Men   Resent You   Deeds  
    Orson Scott Card (2012). “Alvin Journeyman: Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.162, Hachette UK
  • Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

    Truth   Fool   Sadistic  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin
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