Occasions Quotes

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

— Hannah More

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

— Horace

Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.

— David Nail

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

— Anonymous

Wine makes every meal an occasion.

— Andre Simon

I do like to do mad stuff on occasions.

— Nadine Coyle

New occasions teach new duties.

— James Russell Lowell

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

— Fred Barnes

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied.

— Howard G. Hendricks

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

— Saint Francis de Sales

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

— Ambrose Bierce

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

— Robin Hayes

Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is.

— Deion Sanders

The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.

— Melinda Blau

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.

— Kevin Pietersen

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather…

— Luis Bunuel

Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks…

— William Shakespeare

I've worked with Method Man and Shaquille O'Neil on multiple occasions. I'd never have thought. It's like, 'Oh, those guys. They're my…

— Bobby Moynihan

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the…

— Kelly Slater

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled…

— Conrad Black

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a…

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God,…

— Swami Vivekananda

David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will…

— Tea Leoni

I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants.…

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit…

— Samuel Johnson

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and…

— Alberto Manguel

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it…

— Plutarch

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there,…

— William Bligh

This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,…

— William Shakespeare

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in…

— Anita Hill

On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained…

— James W. Loewen

We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not -…

— Paul Krugman

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant…

— Margaret Fuller

The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the…

— Peter Høeg

Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing.…

— Norman Mailer

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should…

— Andrei Tarkovsky