Occasions Quotes

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I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed… — Shaun Tan
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasionâ€¦You must… — Richard Baxter
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself â€” there is no wish I make more… — Emile M. Cioran
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves. — Andre Gide
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
An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature. — Charles Olson
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
Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion… — Robert Musil
Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an… — Michael Jackson
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. — David Hume
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar,… — Carl Sagan
Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in… — Hester Browne
Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater… — Cyrus the Great
When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. — John Weitz
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,… — Gautama Buddha
A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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