Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. — Brooke Westcott Copy Share Image
On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods. — Polybius Copy Share Image
I only drink on two occasions. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I have, on several occasions, disagreed with decisions of Justice Souter. — William H. Pryor Copy Share Image
I've been called Ellen DeGeneres on a number of occasions over the course of my career. — Joe Root Copy Share Image
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will. — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The… — Jeremy Brett Copy Share Image
I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.(… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
As for 1994 [ U.S. Open], I didn't do very well, but it was a great occasion for me even though I… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Historic accounts of the lives of great masters have told of rainbows and other special signs, like the rain of flowers, and… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not -… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. — John Owen Copy Share Image
![“The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/thomas-jefferson-43_authority_the-president-is-bound-to-stop-at-the-li_1423355.jpg)
![“Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.” quote by Max Allan Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e52/max-allan-collins-17045_occasions_rick-can-you-swim-evelyn-well-of-course_888075.jpg)
![“As for 1994 [ U.S. Open], I didn't do very well, but it was a great occasion for me even though I was not playing the way I had hoped. And it was obviously a very emotional day that last day, but it was a great memory for me and I have had a lot of great memories at Oakmont over the years.” quote by Arnold Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4a/arnold-palmer-2127_emotional_as-for-1994-u-s-open-i-didn-t-do-very-we_2721110.jpg)
