Quotes and Sayings About Occasions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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
