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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. -- Voltaire
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. -- Groucho Marx
Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances. -- Sam Horn
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak. -- Ted Nugent
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. -- Olivia Newton-John
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations. -- John Quincy Adams
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations." -- John Quincy Adams
When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off. -- Mariska Hargitay
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature. -- Polykarp Kusch
Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away. -- Woody Allen
You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness. -- Max Lucado
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them. -- John H. Johnson
Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it. -- Andrew Tudor
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes. -- Anna Neagle
The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours. -- Peter York
I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love. -- Shirley Knight
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better. -- Dick Cheney
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. -- Johannes Tauler
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. -- Charles Tennyson Turner
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. -- Dean Kamen
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. -- Neil Diamond
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself. -- Anne Rice
Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies. -- Mario Lopez
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you. -- Gabriel Byrne
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out. -- David Talbot
Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that. -- Payne Stewart
I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world. -- Maurice Strong
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. -- Brian Lumley
I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling. -- Elmer Bernstein
Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people. -- Rene Redzepi
I'm a green tea addict, though the occasional glass of red wine is nice, too. -- Shilpa Shetty
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. -- Oswald Mosley
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day. -- Koichi Tanaka
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. -- Ogden Nash
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. -- Lydia Davis
In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it. -- James Nesbitt
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. -- David Harsanyi
I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision. -- Jeff Greenfield
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results. -- Oliver Joseph Lodge
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint. -- Orhan Pamuk
I follow my own advice: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and don't eat too much junk food. It leaves plenty of flexibility for eating an occasional junk food. -- Marion Nestle
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! -- John Piper
The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic. -- Seth Shostak
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm. -- Gelsey Kirkland
The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good. -- Kate Winslet
I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing. -- Karen Cushman
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess. -- Neil Peart
Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies. -- Cass Sunstein
No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet. -- Christopher Paolini
A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. -- Charles Krauthammer
She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover. -- Steig Larsson
Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk. -- Richard Yates
Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire. -- Mason Cooley
He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle. -- Paulo Coelho
There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink. -- Oscar Wilde
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect. -- Mark Twain
The price for men in motion is the occasional collision... -- Carroll Smith
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. -- George Santayana
She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages. -- Lauren Kate
In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse. -- Tillie Olsen
Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having. -- Lin Yutang
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argumentand the occasional bar fight. -- J. Michael Strazynski
Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally. -- Billy Collins
An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter. -- Brandon Mull
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. -- Thomas Hardy
God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut. -- Max Lucado
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story. -- Adam Carolla
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. -- J. Michael Straczynski
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves. -- Kirby Larson
I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch. -- Venus Williams
A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody. -- Erica Tazel
There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off. -- Mariska Hargitay
In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia. -- Kenneth Hare
I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink. -- E. B. White
Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor. -- Tad Williams
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did. -- Robert Benchley
In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine. -- Edward Abbey
Too often in my life, love has been defined as humiliation with occasional roses. -- Deb Caletti
Women need food, water, and compliments That's right. And an occasional pair of shoes. -- Chris Rock
Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses". -- Deb Caletti
The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us. -- Colin Powell
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. -- Charles Spurgeon
Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety. -- Dorothea Brande
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. -- Robertson Davies
The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye. -- Gary K. Wolf
dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. -- John Green
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. -- John Ruskin
Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake. -- Paulo Coelho
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. -- Emily Giffin
Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory. -- Mariella Frostrup
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. -- Agnes Repplier
If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor. -- Groucho Marx
Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. -- Robyn Davidson
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard. -- Archibald MacLeish
Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius -- Marshall Cook
It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance. -- Guillaume Musso
An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures. -- Craig M. Mullaney
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention. -- Martha Stewart
Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between? -- Buwei Yang Chao
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But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. -- James Payn
They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head. -- Jon Winokur
After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory. -- Mark White
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures. -- Anne Frank
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. -- Thomas Jefferson
Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. -- Og Mandino
Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. -- Walter de La Mare
For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle. -- Robert Breault
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity. -- Augusten Burroughs
Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. -- Fulton J. Sheen
If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors? -- James Lee Burke

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