Quotes of: Special-occasion Keyword

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

Taylor Phinney

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Mahatma Gandhi

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Alan Moore

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

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

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.

Andrae Crouch

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Herbert Hoover

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Walter Savage Landor

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Mariella Frostrup

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

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who ...

Sherwin B. Nuland

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

Alex Berenson

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

Alexis Bledel

People come in and out of our lives continually. Some are blessings, some are lessons, and on rare occasions, they're both.

Anonymous

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Benjamin Disraeli

1. A negative thinking introvert will rise to the occasion a positive extrovert will only fall - given time.

Love

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

Work

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

Unarine Ramaru

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It's not that somebody shouldn't have specialized knowledge. The ability to dig a trench and lay a cable is...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy