Top 1200 Rare Occasions Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

It's rare to see a person of colour in a lead role. It does matter to a lot of people.

Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer . . . is under a duty to act as a person of independent ethical concern with obligations not only to his client's interests but also to fairness and justice in the management of affairs.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.

My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.

I'll smoke weed occasionally, on special occasions like a movie night or something. I like to drink beer but whenever it comes to hard drugs, I really believe that they hurt your body, deplete your energy.

I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

I wear stuff I regret all the time. It's very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

The people at Cabot Guns are a rare breed of geniuses and artists in a vast gun world.

A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

I do occasionally encounter a British business that delivers what and when, and for exactly the price, they promised. But commercial paragons in the U.K. are rare.

It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

I don't like sitting on the bench even when it was very rare at Hull to rest during cup games.

The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.

It's rare to find someone as equally grumpy as myself, but somehow [Aubrey Plaza] does it.

Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Truly, I connected with all of my cast mates, which is rare but I think that's what made 'Trinkets' so special.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.

It doesn't really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other's films, I guess, but there isn't some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven't invited me.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

On the days I am free, gym is the first place I visit on waking up. Even when I am travelling, I mostly manage to find a gym but on occasions when I don't, I pay more than usual attention to my diet.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

To be 29 and have a heart issue is very rare. Other than that, I had a clean bill of health.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather with a pair of Tsubi jeans or wear a favorite pin-striped suit from him for more formal occasions. I'm crazy about pinstripes and vintage fifties fabrics.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we've had a new band member or change in members, then we've done a new album with new chops and refreshed the musical approach.

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 scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact.

The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

Ruth's Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.

It's pretty rare for them to not be in our fridge, I have usually a good supply of all-beef hot dogs.

Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.