Occasions Quotes

1024 Occasions quotes by 788 unique authors

I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often. — Emma Watson
Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion! — Johnny Weir
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,… — A. N. Wilson
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's… — Stevie Wonder
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. — Loretta Young
Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that… — Julian Baggini
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. — Julian Baggini
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or… — David A. Bednar
The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was… — Sam Harris
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots — Albert Einstein
And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was… — Isaac Asimov
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it… — Jane Austen
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion. — Mark Twain
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of… — Terry Pratchett
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected… — Sigmund Freud
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses… — Albert Camus
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick… — Charles Dickens
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of… — Henry James
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. — Ambrose Bierce
The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison,… — Mary Roach
Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. — Suzanne Weyn
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter… — Charles Dickens
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business. — Jane Austen
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi

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