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Tag Name "Occasion" (498)

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God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.
Daniel A. Poling
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Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.
Orison Swett Marden
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I think that's what, to me, also talks about the silences in my work - as a woman, a woman writer, when you say, no or you have to say, no so often to the writing occasion, those occasions don't really come back.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
George Harrison
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As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles de Gaulle
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Hosea Ballou
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We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.
Marcel Proust
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When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him.
Dalai Lama
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I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
Raymond Berry
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He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
Publilius Syrus
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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge.
Narendra Modi
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I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.
Tony Scott
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The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.
Thomas Jefferson
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For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.
C. V. Wedgwood
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If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
Douglas Adams
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Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.
Paula Deen
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Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.
Davy Crockett
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I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.
Nadia Giosia
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HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Ambrose Bierce
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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.
Khaled Hosseini
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I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.
Adam Sandler
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