Occasions Quotes - Page 29

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

Ally Condie

Life, People, Needs

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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

Oswald Chambers

Weakness, Spirit, Manifest

Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.262, Discovery House

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My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

Joshua Chamberlain

Men, Fire, Wings

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

Li Peng

Country, Long, Wish

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Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

Steve Jordan

Writing, Frustration, Drug

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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

Aristotle

Revenge, Anger, Character

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Isocrates

Communication, Two, Silence

Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

Epictetus

Communication, Athlete, People

Epictetus (1925). “The Discourses as reported by Arrian: the Manual, and fragments”

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When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

John Foxe

Christian, Flower, Heaven

John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

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Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.

Marlene Dietrich

Knowing, Way, Kind

The Observer, www.theguardian.com. 1960.

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A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.

Thomas Aquinas

Faith, Men, Reason

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

Pierre Salinger

Alaska, President, Lovers

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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

William Penn

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.157

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Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Henry Fuseli

Art, Practice, Life Is

Henry Fuseli (1831). “The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli”, p.63

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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

Thinking, Hot, May

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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. Every human learns one day or another to become softer. Some accidentally, some because of disease, some suffer from human loss, some other from material loss ... We all face these situations, but we can either see the good in it and open our hearts, or unfortunately see an another occasion to lock it forever.

Shams Tabrizi

Beautiful, Heart, Loss

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Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

Herman Melville

Tyrants, Insult, Slave

Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.276, Northwestern University Press

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Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

Ralph Lauren

Each Day

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Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

John Wooden

Mistake, Fall, Adversity

John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it

Victoria Beckham

Special, Dresses, Special Occasion

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May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.

Pope Francis

Jesus, World, May

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Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.

Dallas Willard

Christian, Giving, Heaven

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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

Mark Twain

Book, Loss, Gun

Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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I've always admired a woman who can dress for all occasions-someo ne who's not fashion crazy,but you always want to look like her.

Ralph Lauren

Fashion, Crazy, Dresses

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Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

Harriet McBryde Johnson

Loss, Survival, Remember

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