Occasions Quotes

1024 Occasions quotes by 788 unique authors

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold… — Albert Camus
There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I… — Garth Ennis
Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another. These events would… — L. Tom Perry
Let our hearts admit, â€œI am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul.… — John Owen
Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little… — Thomas Brooks
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if… — Auguste Comte
You shouldnâ€™t blindly accept a leaderâ€™s advice. Youâ€™ve got to question leaders on occasion. — Richard Branson
For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great. — Abe Fortas
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were… — Edward Coke
We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I… — James Callaghan
Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay… — Bill Keller
The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear. — Margaret Thatcher
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist… — Edward Ruscha
Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is… — Ron Chernow
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. — Hosea Ballou
Bottom line, wasnâ€™t life itself a special occasion? — Jan Karon
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case… — Isocrates
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those… — James Russell Lowell
Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion. — William Penn

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