This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary (2001)
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Let us celebrate the occasion
with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Take the initiative - don't wait for life to come to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
My JOY Factory is Immense.
I don't wait for joy,
I manufacture my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spread your wings - TODAY. Why wait?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spirit has unlimited patience,
and will wait for me to evolve.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down
on the tracks of history
to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait
- John Milton
A city is a place where there is no need to
wait for next week to get the answer to a question,
to taste the food of any country,
to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
- Margaret Mead
On His Blindness:
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
What this country needs is a credit card for
charging things to experience.
- Tom Wilson
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Oh, Shrek. Don't worry.
Things just seem bad because it's dark and rainy
and Fiona's father hired a sleazy hitman to whack you.
- the movie Shrek 2
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
Of all the things that could frighten you,
you worry about my driving?
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful,
natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
- Lewis Carroll
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.
Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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