Occasion Quotes
728 Occasion quotes by 590 unique authors
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other…
— Peter Jennings
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to…
— Naomi Judd
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
— John Lydon
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just…
— Orison Swett Marden
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
— Spike Milligan
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I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily…
— Helen Mirren
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
— Moliere
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I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to…
— Marilyn Monroe
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On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as…
— Thomas S. Monson
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On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
— Alan Moore
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I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
— Susan Orlean
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Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with…
— John Piper
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
— Plautus
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Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous…
— John Podhoretz
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
— Sidney Poitier
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.
— Ginger Rogers
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman;…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and…
— George Saunders
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