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Letter "O" » occasion
«Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Fishing,
Simplicity
| Keywords:
fishing, occasion, Return to
«Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.»
«All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Universe
| Keywords:
casino, casinos, dice, gambler, gamblers, occasion, quite a, roulette, roulette wheel, spin, spinning wheel, The Casino, The Gambler, thrown, wheels
«And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
breaking off, break off, constriction, deathly, hateful, mask, occasion, preceded, stillness, T, torn, unrelatedness, vacancies, vacancy
«Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.»
Author: Spike Milligan
(Actor, Humorist)
| Keywords:
conceivable, contraceptive, Contraceptives, occasion
«Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquiring, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, effect, excess, exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, moderation, occasion, on occasion, prevents
«But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.»
«Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
mouths, occasion, on occasion, possesses, shuts
«A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ascetic, ascetics, blueprint, blueprints, commercial, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, occasion, provided with, ritual, social rights, specification, specifications, tone
«Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
although, clear, events, leading, occasion, occasioned, on occasion, recollection, recollections, to it, up to
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