Occasions Quotes
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.
On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him.
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.
I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.
I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.
This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions.
I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.
On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman.
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
I actually enjoyed changing diapers and I enjoyed swaddling. I don't mind being swaddled either, on occasion.
