Occasions Quotes - Page 26

• I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "'I think I'm quite good at my job'". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Humanity, Usage

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• Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

  Epictetus

  Ignorant, Attention, Stranger

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• Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

  Charles Stanley

  Wisdom, Kindness, Desire

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• This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

  Bryan Robson

  Soccer, Funny Soccer, Bigger

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• Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Home, Journey

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.429

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• She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Knitting, Romance

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• Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

  George Washington

  Debt, Remember, Danger

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Character, Greatness, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

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• You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.

  Victoria Moran

  Giving Up, Believe, People

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• I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

  Daniel Handler

  Birthday, Book, Thinking

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• The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Taken, Church, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.10, Moody Publishers

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• World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

  Kofi Annan

  Mother, Children, Health

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• This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Long, Survivor, World

  "Secretary-General Appeals to Governments and Members of Civil Society to Take Action to Defeat Torture and Torturers Everywhere". Kofi Annan's message on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 26), www.un.org. June 23, 1998.

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• Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

  Maria Monk

  Wise, Taken, Advice

  Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.35, New York : Howe & Bates

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• America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

  Christie Brinkley

  Believe, America, Hunger

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• Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

  George Washington

  Giving, Brilliant, Speak

  "The Writings of George Washington".

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• Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

  J. B. Matthews

  Motivation, Men, Preparation

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• Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

  Tony Greig

  Anger, Taken, Years

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Zero, Mistake

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• Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

  James Nesbitt

  Character, Dark, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Special, World

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.52, Ignatius Press

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• There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Taken, Meals, Midst

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• My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.

  Eric Massa

  Team, Good Friend, Player

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• I look at the occasion, and this was one of the biggest so far in my career. It was a bit of a gamble, but I spotted Casillas off his line before the cross came in. It was a header, but a lobbed header -- a great goal.

  Robin van Persie

  Careers, Goal, Looks

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