Occasion Quotes

728 Occasion quotes by 590 unique authors

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football… — David Halberstam
You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary… — Victoria Moran
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. — Publilius Syrus
Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training. — Barrett Tillman
Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. [On one occasion] my coach told me that the other team were… — Cammi Granato
Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this.… — Wesley Morris
We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy… — Stephen Batchelor
I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself — Ralph Lauren
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. — Michael Pollan
You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion. A black dress… — Christian Dior
Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can wear it at… — Christian Dior
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. — Horace
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when… — Martin Luther
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. — Benjamin Franklin
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are… — William Shakespeare
During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they… — Thomas Jefferson
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country,… — Albert Camus
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to… — Epictetus
One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I… — J. Reuben Clark
This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance. — Cathy Freeman
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in… — Benjamin Franklin
For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another,… — Alexander Hamilton
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the… — Virginia Woolf
Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little… — William Shakespeare

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