Occasions Quotes

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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
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. — Norm MacDonald
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves… — Walter Raleigh
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
Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power… — Joan Bauer
I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion. — Raymond Berry
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of… — Zadie Smith
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
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping… — John Hay
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
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them… — Albert Bandura
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

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