Occasions Quotes - Page 6

• Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.

  Hugh Black

  Prayer, Attitude, Communication

  Hugh Black (1999). “The Art of Being a Good Friend: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Friends and in Yourself”, p.142, Sophia Institute Press

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• It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Spring, Apes, Curious

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

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• We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.

  Paul David Tripp

  Heart, People, Admitting

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• If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

  Carter Heyward

  Abortion, Serious, Would Be

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• Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Acceptance, Bygones, Lost

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Art, Science

  Moses Maimonides, Hippocrates (1987). “Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates”

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• He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

  John Owen

  Encouragement, Sin, Neglect

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Parent, Generations

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

  St. Jerome

  Keys, Heaven, Church

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• It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.

  Josh Garrels

  Faith, Inspiration, Sky

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• Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

  Noah Webster

  Names, Religion, Important

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• Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Competition, Enhancement, Tendencies

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.27

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• CSETI (The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has in the past 18 months succeeded in intentionally establishing contact with extraterrestrial spacecraft, on two occasions at very close range, and with multiple witnesses present.

  Steven M. Greer

  Past, Two, Months

  Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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• In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and it is interesting to try to understand this attitude. Most scientists have never had the occasion to confront evidence concerning the UFO phenomenon.

  Peter A. Sturrock

  Attitude, Interesting, Trying

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• On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Powerful, Effort

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• I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

  Gordon Cooper

  Europe, Two, Flying

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• Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Say Anything

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are more sound oriented. Or I'll try to incorporate those languages and occasions somehow.

  Anne Waldman

  Reading, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Life is an occasion...rise to it.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life Is

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• Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'

  John Oliver

  Queens, Giving, Faces

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• 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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• 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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• 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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