Occasions Quotes

1024 Occasions quotes by 788 unique authors

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives. — Pierre Corneille
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of… — Daniel Gilbert
I have written on numerous occasions thatÂ there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to… — Robert Spencer
Youâ€™ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best.Â No one is born a hero, but things happen… — Robert Glasper
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites,… — Paul Feyerabend
But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have… — Barney Frank
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators,… — Lewis Tappan
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. — Gerrit Smith
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including… — Noam Chomsky
Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace… — Fredrik Bajer
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an… — Fredrik Bajer
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories… — Mavis Gallant
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over… — Hannah More
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny… — St. Vincent
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure — Fanny Burney
On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images… — Friedrich Nietzsche
On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations'… — Jenny Shipley
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in… — Barbara Pym
I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in… — Ronald Reagan
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you… — Edward Everett

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