Quotes of: Occasion Keyword

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

Bing Crosby

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

J. J. Johnson

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

Donald Evans

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

Josh Peck

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

Zebulon Pike

There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.

Chanda Kochhar

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

Jock Sturges

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

Little Women

So true. You have to have the right shoes for the occasion.

Talk of the Town

On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.

Todd Rundgren

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Charles de Montesquieu

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

Cathy Freeman

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Bill Nye

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

James Russell Lowell

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

John Pomfret

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

William James

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

Edgar Allan Poe

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

Joan Blades