Occasion Quotes
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Occasion Quotes & Sayings
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If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion
— Benny Bellamacina
I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself
— Ralph Lauren
God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.
— Daniel A. Poling
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.
— Josh Billings
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
— Abraham Cowley
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
— Miroslav Volf
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
— William Cowper
You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it
— Victoria Beckham
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
— Thomas Jefferson
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
— Mencius
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
— Andre Simon
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
— Pearl S. Buck
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
— Calvin Coolidge
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion ...
— Jane Austen
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
— Edmund Spenser
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
— Julian Baggini
It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion ...
— Abraham Lincoln
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man
— Mahatma Gandhi
I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it.
— Ilona Andrews
Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane
— Cassandra Clare
Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Maybe he should have rallied, risen to the occasion like the rest of them. The truth was the thought made him tired. Shaddid
— James S.A. Corey
I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.
— Jerome K. Jerome
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
— Bill Vaughan
If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?
— Joseph Epstein
Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet, ... The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak
Our selves unseen, unseeing! — Edmond Rostand
There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.
— Michael Pollan
This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.
— Cathy Freeman
The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
It's a very special venue and a very special occasion.
— Matthew Hayden
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
— Herbert Hoover
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.
— Carter Heyward
Marrying. Oh, God. Buoyed temporarily by port wine and cream lace, I had momentarily managed to ignore the significance of the occasion.
— Diana Gabaldon
I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.
— Lizzie Andrew Borden
I love Stella McCartney because she's timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability - you don't need 'an occasion' for her clothes.
— Louise Nurding
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
— Pierre Corneille
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.[The Minotaur] — Albert Camus
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
— Gautama Buddha
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves
— Ralph Lauren
Life is its own occasion; it does not need a reason to celebrate itself.
— Heather K. O'Hara
You shouldn't blindly accept a leader's advice. You've got to question leaders on occasion.
— Richard Branson
A woman is an occasion. My dick rises to it.
— Karen Marie Moning
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
— Machado De Assis
What's the occasion?" I ask.He glances up at me and takes a deep breath. "You're the occasion, Woods. I've missed you so, so much. — Miranda Kenneally
When it comes to shoes, I always think Charlotte Olympia, of course! Her footwear is always feminine and sexy and also just right for every occasion.
— Alice Temperley
The essential is to think that anything you are doing has to become the occasion for slashing. You must examine this well.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?" "On occasion," said Locke. "There are contrary opinions. — Scott Lynch
For M & B.Should you ever get to read this, to remind you that when life offers you a challenge:
rise to the occasion. — Hope Barrett
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Lucas, I never wanted children. I just want to be CEO. I want money, power, and on occasion, sex
— Norian F. Love
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
— Jonathan Swift
When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.
— Michael Owen
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.
— James Russell Lowell
The truth is never dressed for the occasion.
— Steve Maraboli
Approach each session as an occasion to practice being with another without expectation.
— Harold Dull
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
— Lincoln Steffens
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
— Nelson Algren
Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.
— Gail Carriger
A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
— Philip Zaleski
1. A negative thinking introvert will rise to the occasion a positive extrovert will only fall - given time.
— Peter SMith Talking Cures
Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.
— Alexander Hamilton
Sometimes what comes, simply comes, too fast to anticipate, or counter with prudence. The deluge just appears, on occasion, be it weather, or life.
— Ryne Douglas Pearson
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
— Erich Fromm
This is my wife, Trish. The Good Lord overwhelms her on occasion. I find it best to just ignore it,
— Kristen Ashley
But even brave people are afraid on occasion. Sometimes fear can protect us from being too foolish or reckless.
— Jody Hedlund
I'm suggesting that if you're going to bring hell down upon someone's head, you should dress for the occasion.
— T. Kingfisher
He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
— Wilfrid Laurier
