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  • Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. -- Josh Billings
  • Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life. -- Richard Pound
  • Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life. -- Richard Pound
  • 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. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn. -- George Washington
  • Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime. -- Philip Treacy
  • Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. -- Jim Rohn
  • 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. -- Pam Brown
  • Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too. -- Walter Annenberg
  • Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not -- Coco Chanel
  • Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again. -- Pope Francis
  • The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. -- Max Lucado
  • A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. -- Herman Melville
  • Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge. -- Hester Browne
  • Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. -- Joseph Addison
  • When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. -- Bob Hope
  • 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. -- John A. Lejeune
  • There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day. -- Jim Butcher
  • If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning. -- Martin Luther
  • A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake. -- Nina Dobrev
  • There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. -- Herbert Hoover
  • The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. -- Charles de Montesquieu
  • I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am. -- Virat Kohli
  • The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. -- John Buchan
  • If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. -- Jesse Jackson
  • When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
  • Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. -- Emma Goldman
  • History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. -- Michael K. Simpson
  • I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. -- Thor Heyerdahl
  • All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. -- Wilson Mizner
  • Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. -- Brooke Foss Westcott
  • One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. -- Gretchen Rubin
  • No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day? -- Christian Bale
  • On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage
  • It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. -- Teresa of Ávila
  • For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. -- Derek Bok
  • Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. -- Gary Oldman
  • There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty. -- Andy Stanley
  • When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself. -- Wayne Dyer
  • New occasions teach new duties. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Christ's humanity occasions our divinity -- Scott Cairns
  • Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38. -- Karen Kingsbury
  • I've been homeless on a few occasions. -- Jay Electronica
  • Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. -- Charles Lamb
  • Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. -- Samuel Butler
  • There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness. -- Samuel Johnson
  • There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage. -- J. K. Rowling
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  • Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. -- Lord Chesterfield
  • Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. -- Lord Chesterfield
  • I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions. -- Taylor Caldwell
  • I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. -- John Pomfret
  • There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things. -- William Shakespeare
  • All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons. -- John Donne
  • The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions. -- Melinda Blau
  • Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • For special occasions, I love pretty dresses - but nothing too frou-frou! -- Twiggy
  • On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence. -- Bebe Neuwirth
  • Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke. -- Edmund Spenser
  • Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure -- Fanny Burney
  • Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature. -- Charles Olson
  • Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. -- Aristotle
  • Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. -- Frances Burney
  • He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. -- George D. Prentice
  • A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense. -- E. W. Howe
  • Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it's best not to say anything. -- Miljenko Jergovic
  • There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. -- Robert Breault
  • My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions. -- Renata Adler
  • Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. -- Josh McDowell
  • There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider. -- E. M. Forster
  • Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. -- Thornton Wilder
  • There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing. -- Francine Prose
  • The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • [Hillary Clinton] has seen on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped. -- Donald Trump
  • I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions. -- Jon Cryer
  • I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not. -- Brendan Behan
  • A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me. -- Carrie Fisher
  • The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions. -- Andrew Strauss
  • They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions. -- Joe Henderson
  • Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. -- Alexander Hamilton
  • I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions. -- Olivia Palermo
  • Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. -- Alexander Pushkin
  • Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves. -- Andre Gide
  • She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions. -- Jean M. Auel
  • The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come. -- Sister Parish
  • White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream. -- Greg Proops
  • Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. -- John Owen
  • Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. -- Brooke Westcott
  • You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it. -- Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. -- C. S. Lewis
  • There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. -- George Henry Lewes
  • But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last. -- George Eliot
  • It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. -- Laurence Sterne
  • There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest. -- Lord Chesterfield
  • The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. -- Charles de Montesquieu
  • On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions. -- John Tillotson
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