Occasions Quotes

1024 Occasions quotes by 788 unique authors

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and… — Fiona Shaw
Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion. — David Nail
It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the… — Pauline Hanson
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is… — Seneca the Younger
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction… — Charles Horton Cooley
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must… — Seneca the Younger
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the… — Abraham Lincoln
Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that… — Annie Oakley
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to… — Martin E. Marty
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time, I have to… — Michael Kenna
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in… — Henry David Thoreau
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of… — Hermann Hesse
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.....… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion. — John Henry Newman
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom… — Alexander Hamilton
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion. — Henry Ward Beecher
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C.S. Lewis
It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion... — Abraham Lincoln
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has… — George Santayana
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn't believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through… — Leigh Newman
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it… — Walter Lippmann
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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