Top 815 Occasions Quotes & Sayings

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

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Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

It's perfectly acceptable to wear a short dress to formal occasions.

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

I'm not a great father and there have been many occasions, when I fall short, but I'm genuinely trying.

In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that are objects of sustainable public action-become not only occasions for collaboration by invaluable sources of citizen education in their own right because they are the occasions for learning such skills.

Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.

Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I do like to do mad stuff on occasions.

Birthdays are meant for special occasions.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.

Christ’s humanity occasions our divinity

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

There are occasions when obstruction in Parliament brings greater benefits to the country.

There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything.

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.

I have, on several occasions, disagreed with decisions of Justice Souter.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

There are so many occasions when I'd like to go back in time and have a word with myself.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.