Occasions Quotes

1024 Occasions quotes by 788 unique authors

I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you can donate special-occasion dresses. Prom is a… — Ashley Greene
Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a… — Gail Collins
I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards… — Bear Grylls
Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not… — Francesco Guicciardini
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. — Calvin Coolidge
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. — Bing Crosby
If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on… — Bryan Cranston
Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands… — Sloane Crosley
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all… — Joan Didion
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. — Benjamin Disraeli
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. — George Eliot
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital. — Donald Evans
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a… — James Fenton
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and… — Thor Heyerdahl
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. — Herbert Hoover
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off… — Bob Hope
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my… — Jesse Jackson
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I… — Henry James
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. — William James
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how… — Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. — Thomas Jefferson
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. — Thomas Jefferson
I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other… — Peter Jennings

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