Occasion Quotes

728 Occasion quotes by 590 unique authors

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the… — Abraham Lincoln
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time, I have to… — Michael Kenna
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of… — Hermann Hesse
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.....… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion. — John Henry Newman
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion... — Abraham Lincoln
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has… — George Santayana
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn't believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through… — Leigh Newman
I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only. — Mencius
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and,… — Jean Giraudoux
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when… — Alfred North Whitehead
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly. — Unknown Author
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion… — Richard Whately
People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all… — Judith Martin
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what… — Charles Kennedy
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are… — Miguel de Unamuno
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. — Brendan Gill
To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know. — Pindar

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