Occasions Quotes - Page 27

• I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

  Chely Wright

  Dad, Player, Bass

  23 Copy quote

• If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

  Joseph Epstein

  Mistake, Genius, Sometimes

  4 Copy quote

• Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

  Andy Stanley

  Grace, Use, Vehicle

  6 Copy quote

• Tramps Like Us is The GREATEST Bruce Springsteen Tribute Band In The LAND! I've witnessed them on several occasions and their performances are SECOND TO NONE !

  Mike Appel

  Land, Band, Tramps

  7 Copy quote

• Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Football, Pain

  David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.73, Open Road Media

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

  Publilius Syrus

  Evil, Want, Bent

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 459, 1856.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Blessed, Grateful, Heart

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

  Barrett Tillman

  Training, Levels, Default

  Barrett Tillman (1992). “The Sixth Battle”, Bantam

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. [On one occasion] my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys.

  Cammi Granato

  Running, Team, Numbers

  4 Copy quote

• Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

  Wesley Morris

  Jobs, Blue, Design

  4 Copy quote

• We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy 'one word' Zen. When asked 'What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?' he replied: 'An appropriate statement.' On another occasion, he answered: 'Cake.' I admired his directness.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teaching, Men, Cake

  Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself

  Ralph Lauren

  Believe, Style, Reinventing Yourself

  32 Copy quote

• All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

  John Donne

  Mercy, All Time, All Occasions

  1624 Sermons,'Christmas Day, 1624'.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Special, Special Occasion

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.60, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion. A black dress is essential for every woman.

  Christian Dior

  Black, Age, Essentials

  31 Copy quote

• Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Mind, Investing

  6 Copy quote

• Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can wear it at any age. You can wear it for almost any occasion. I could write a book about black.

  Christian Dior

  Book, Writing, Color

  204 Copy quote

• I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.

  Maya Deren

  Rare Occasion, Auras, Film

  49 Copy quote

• A slave stands infront of Allah on two occasions. The first during salah, and secondly on the Day of Judgment. Whoseover stands correctly in the first, the second standing will be made easier for him. And whosoever, disregards the first standing, the second standing will be extremely difficult.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Two, Firsts, Judgment

  592 Copy quote

• It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

  Horace

  Sweet, Mind

  7 Copy quote

• If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Attitude, Cells, White

  27 Copy quote

• But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have mentioned on some occasions that 'Richter is all about light', and that 'the paintings have a special light', and I never knew what they were talking about. I was never interested in light. Light is there and you turn it on or you turn it off, with sun or without sun. I don't know what the 'problematic of light' is. I take it as a metaphor for a different quality, which is similarly difficult to describe. Good.

  Gerhard Richter

  Light, Talking, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Art, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my
  mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Overcoming, Remember

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source