Occasions Quotes · Page 8

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

— Carrie Fisher

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

— Orison Swett Marden

Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion.

— George Washington

[Hillary Clinton] has seen on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped.

— Donald Trump

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

— John Donne

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

— Josh Billings

For special occasions, I love pretty dresses - but nothing too frou-frou!

— Twiggy

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

— Oscar Wilde

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

— Michael Pollan

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our…

— Neil Strauss

I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it…

— Mike Tyson

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

— Anonymous

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City…

— William E. Gladstone

There were a couple of occasions when it was passed around - and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale!

— Brian Cowen

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in…

— Marlene Dietrich

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

— Nathanael Emmons

You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero,…

— Robert Glasper

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into…

— Simone Weil

I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for…

— Kathryn Minshew

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at…

— Jim Butcher

Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion…

— Samantha Stosur

Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work…

— James Russell Lowell

I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.…

— Charles Lamb

Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even…

— Dean Koontz

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at…

— Wallace Stevens

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.…

— Charles Baxter

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

To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

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

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.

— Jeff Lindsay

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

— Joan Blades

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness.

— Samuel Johnson

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.

— Limmy

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

— John Henry Newman

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore