Occasions Quotes · Page 12

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

— Edmund Spenser

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

— Jeff Lindsay

You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

— Barrett Tillman

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

— Anonymous

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

— Brooke Westcott

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

— Polybius

I only drink on two occasions. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.

— Nikhil Saluja

I have, on several occasions, disagreed with decisions of Justice Souter.

— William H. Pryor

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

— John Tillotson

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

— Alexander Hamilton

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

— Andre Gide

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer…

— Julie Harris

Do not wait for special occasions to make her feel special. Make her feel special as many time as you can.

— Anonymous

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

— Michel de Montaigne

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a…

— Terry Pratchett

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be…

— N. Scott Momaday

I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but…

— Michael Faraday

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it…

— Sigmund Freud

I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incredible. She's always got a song for…

— Ronnie Milsap

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,…

— Joan Didion

I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both…

— Drew Hayden Taylor

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it…

— Plutarch

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.…

— Ron Chernow

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to…

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Ted Kooser

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both,…

— John Donne

At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which…

— Hannah Arendt

It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour.…

— Adam Smith

Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken…

— Karan Casey

In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether…

— Paul Kengor

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

— Jon Cryer

Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.

— Cassandra Clare

I've been called Ellen DeGeneres on a number of occasions over the course of my career.

— Joe Root

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

— Anonymous

The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.

— Richard Branson

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

— William Shakespeare