quotes 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 -
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I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
-- Anthony AndersonSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.148, Univ of California Press
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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 -
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
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There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
-- Francine ProseSource : Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.25, Harper Collins
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A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
-- George Stillman HillardSource : Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.247, Boston : Little, Brown
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True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
-- Gerrit Smith -
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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 MontanelliSource : "il Giornale nuovo" Newspaper, (p. 1), August 20, 1977.
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Expect the best and people will rise to the occasion.
-- James Kerr -
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I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
-- Joan BladesSource : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.
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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 PeckSource : "Josh Peck Talks RED DAWN, How He Landed the Role, Watching the Original Film, Boot Camp Training, Working with Chris Hemsworth and Hopes to Direct". Interview, collider.com. November 20, 2012.
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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 BordenSource : Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of 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 PollanSource : Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.60, Penguin
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Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything.
-- Miljenko JergovicSource : Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk
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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 -
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 -
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 BrokawSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
-- Zebulon PikeSource : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns
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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. SubbanSource : Source: www.complex.com
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