Quotes of: Occasions Keyword

I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

Hannah Murray

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Nelson Algren

I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.

Cam Newton

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

John Lydon

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Joseph Epstein

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

Bryan Cranston

The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, an...

Jeremy Grantham

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

Nathan Myhrvold

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

F. W. de Klerk

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

Vitruvius

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Marcus Aurelius

When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.

Rani Mukerji

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.

Albert Bushnell Hart

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

Wilfrid Laurier

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

W. Somerset Maugham

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

Silvio Berlusconi

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Meditations

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Middlemarch

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

Sidney Poitier