Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
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.
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.
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Isn't it true that there is a rare kind of person who perceives, as does a good dog, that life is doing something meaningful, and who discovers what it is and goes about doing it with a spirit of moderate hustle, and there is a not rare kind of perso...
Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God's goodness to you? 'The pipe is cut off,' says God, 'come to me, the fountain, and drink immediately.' Though the beams are taken a...
Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds, petty criminals and others who were unable to fit into society or take care of themselves. It was rare, too, that they were l...
If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. ...
Chief Red Garnett: [interrupting a confrontation] How you take your steak, Sally? Sally Gerber: Rare. Chief Red Garnett: Well, I'll just wipe its ass, hurl it through and you can tear off a slab. How'd that be? Sally Gerber: On second thought, maybe ...
Atheism Is Rare ?! so is intelligence
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say wh...
Whoever is in charge of such things had been sparing with his blessings on the moment Benno was born. He had neither looks nor wit nor skill. He was not large or strong, he could not sing; in fact, he had a stammer, which on most occasions left him s...
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.