Occasions Quotes · Page 5

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

— Josh Billings

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

— Jimmy Carter

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

— John Pomfret

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

— Ambrose Bierce

You can eat an omelet at midnight, at lunchtime, all day long. It's perfect for every occasion.

— Wolfgang Puck

Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge.

— Narendra Modi

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it,…

— Orson Scott Card

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

— Philip Sidney

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time

— Benoit Mandelbrot

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It…

— Athenaeus

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

— Oswald Chambers

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the…

— Francis Bacon

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to…

— Jane Austen

I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I…

— Sheryl Crow

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting…

— Nelson A. Miles

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be…

— Corra May Harris

Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going…

— John Green

I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a…

— Kate Bush

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every…

— George Santayana

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important…

— Pat McGauley

I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet,…

— Ted Kooser

Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you."…

— Lauren Oliver

The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third…

— Austen Chamberlain

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity…

— Arthur Helps

Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep.…

— Dan Millman

Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions…

— Terry Pratchett

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the…

— George Will

Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions…

— Anna Kavan

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

— Mark Twain

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

— Paul Tournier

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

— Amy Winehouse

Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.

— Thomas S. Monson

Big nights, big occasions. That's what you want in your career.

— Scott McTominay

Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.

— Pope Francis

I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders.

— Donovan McNabb

All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.

— John Paul Stevens