All Occasioneel Quotes & Sayings

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round. — Ismail Kadare

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. — John Stuart Mill

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. — John Ramsay McCulloch

Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in! — Sheila Kitzinger

Why can't our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other? — Graham Joyce

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public. — Nicolas Chamfort

My perfectly measured ingredients should have mixed and turned into an epic lava. Instead it looks like an outtake from an old sci-fi movie. Green goo has killed my volcano. My chance to win the science fair at Sendak has been slimed! — Angela Cervantes

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis. — Karen Mills

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives. — Timothy Keller

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather. — Isabel Allende