Occasions Quotes - Page 3

• Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Wish, Position

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

  Andre Gide

  People, Opinion

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Party, People, Bed

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• An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

  Charles Olson

  Spatial, Geometry, Complexes

  Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.148, Univ of California Press

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• Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

  Robert Musil

  Hands, Clothes, Stupidity

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press

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• Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Eye, Dancing

  "Dangerous". Album by Michael Jackson, 1991.

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• Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Imagination, Philosopher

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.463, David Hume

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• If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Childhood, Religion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.

  Cyrus the Great

  Mean, Army, Winning

  "9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great" by Ryan Holiday, www.forbes.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Men, Ties

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

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Consistency, Details, Found

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12

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• Of all wines, Champagne is the one that is the anytime drink, the panacea for all ills, the best bottle for any occasion and absolutely the only solution when there is something to celebrate.

  Serena Sutcliffe

  Wine, Drinking Champagne, Bottles

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• On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

  Athenaeus

  Wine, Glasses, Years

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• In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that are objects of sustainable public action-become not only occasions for collaboration by invaluable sources of citizen education in their own right because they are the occasions for learning such skills.

  Harry Boyte

  Skills, People, Democracy

  Harry Chatten Boyte (1989). “CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics”

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• And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion?

  Deborah Feyerick

  Fall, Sky, Way

  "CNN Newsroom" with Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.

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• My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Birthday, Mom, Fashion

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• Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

  Hesiod

  Design, Zeus, Hard

  Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis (2004). “Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield”, p.77, JHU Press

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• Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

  R. J. Palacio

  Courage, Kindness, Character

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.309, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

  Buck Owens

  Mom, Mother, Dream

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• I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Home, Israel

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• Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Strong, Unique

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• The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important to keep beer fun, relevant and in step with the changing preferences of adults who enjoy beer.

  Pat McGauley

  Fun, Wine, Beer

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• Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

  Charles Lamb

  Thanksgiving, Gluttony, Funny Thanksgiving

  Charles Lamb (1867). “The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia”, p.125

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• As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Romantic, Men, Giving

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• Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Self Esteem, Responsibility

  "The Case Against Henry Kissinger. Part Two. Crimes against humanity". www.thirdworldtraveler.com. March 2001.

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