Occasions quotes
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I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.
-- Aidan Quinn -
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
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I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
-- Anthony Anderson -
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
-- Brenda Lee -
Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
-- Cato the Elder -
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An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
-- Charles Olson -
I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon.
-- Crash Davis -
Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.
-- David Nail -
Life is an occasion...rise to it.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
-- Fanny Burney -
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
-- Francine Prose -
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
-- George Stillman Hillard -
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
-- Gerrit Smith -
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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
-- Horace -
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.
-- Indro Montanelli -
Expect the best and people will rise to the occasion.
-- James Kerr -
I've been homeless on a few occasions.
-- Jay Electronica -
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I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
-- Joan Blades -
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach -
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 -
Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!
-- Johnny Weir -
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There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
-- Joseph Stalin -
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
-- Josh Billings -
Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.
-- Josh Peck -
Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.
-- Kenya Hara -
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The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
-- Larry Wall -
Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?
-- Leigh Hunt -
I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.
-- Lizzie Borden -
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…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
-- Machado de Assis -
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.
-- Michael Pollan -
Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything.
-- Miljenko Jergovic -
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Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
-- Ovid -
To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
-- Pindar -
Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves
-- Ralph Lauren -
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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
-- Rex Stout -
Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
-- Suzanne Weyn -
I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
-- Taylor Caldwell -
In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.
-- Thomas Sprat -
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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
-- Tom Brokaw -
What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?
-- W. H. Auden -
Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
-- William Penn -
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Courage mounteth with occasion.
-- William Shakespeare -
On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
-- Zebulon Pike -
You'll find a way. You'll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can't, you'll have friends who will.
-- Michael Monroe -
I'm the oldest, I have the most experience, and I'm the best looking [betwin brothers]. I've been told that on numerous occasions.
-- P. K. Subban -
