"Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us."

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William Makepeace Thackeray

#Father Quotes #Occasions Quotes

“Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.”
“It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.”

Source : "Behind the Scenes: Jonah and the Bible". "Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie", 2002.
“That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.”
“The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”
“Everything means nothing that is the only truth.”
“He Himself creates, O Nanak; He establishes the various creatures. How can anyone be called bad?. There is One Lord and Master of all; He watches over all, and assigns all to their tasks. Some have less, and some have more; no one is allowed to leave empty.”
“I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!”

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