Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
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. — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to… — Don Mattingly Copy Share Image
One way to read the Book of Mormon is as a book of encounters between fathers and sons. Some of those encounters… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine.… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
