Occasion Quotes

728 Occasion quotes by 590 unique authors

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right… — Wentworth Miller
Glamour's my thing. The glamour is what got me into this business in the first place. I lived in a fantasy world in order to… — Unknown Author
Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m… — Rachel Held Evans
I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both races. I plan… — Drew Hayden Taylor
The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek… — Ed Koch
In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and… — Harry S. Truman
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man — Mahatma Gandhi
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of… — Henry David Thoreau
Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special. — John Spence
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners,… — Stanley Baldwin
I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion. — Raymond Berry
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. — Tom Brokaw
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of… — Blaise Pascal
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,… — Thomas Jefferson
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how… — Richard Henry Lee
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer,… — Daniel Defoe
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order… — N. Scott Momaday
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion…You must… — Richard Baxter
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more… — Emile M. Cioran
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on… — Robert E. Lee
As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this… — Nelson Mandela
On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
If you desire to find the true spirit of Christmas and partake of the sweetness of it, let me make this suggestion to you. During… — Howard W. Hunter

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