186 Occasion Quotes for You to Enjoy

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. James Nicoll

Words Down Other Borrow Vocabulary Pockets Pursued Beat Unconscious New Occasion Just Them Languages English Rifle

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. Theodore Roosevelt

War Time Great You Peace Statesman Would General Had No-One Name Occasion Known Lincoln His Get Lived

I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad. Wayne Dyer

Love Day Great Celebrate Writing Father Joke Way Pleasure Kids Favorite Great Pleasure Generous Check Know Occasion Always How How Much Privilege Being Holiday Them Much Each Dad Letter Letting Appreciate

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived. Wayne Dyer

Time Age Money Father Big Nine Everywhere Abandoned Responsibilities More Stealing Disappeared Occasion Issue His Years Up Than Just Jailed Grew Working Who Lived

Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with. Adoniram Judson

Beginning Other Meet Extremely Some Purpose Shape New Occasion Read Parts Am Least Testament Than Offers Intelligible Get New Testament Anxious Being Scripture Translate Notwithstanding Present

What's blessed about my life is that I have been able to connect with the global audience on a regular basis. I am thankful for everybody's love, and I reciprocate that, but I also have to deliver on every occasion. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. Alan Moore

Writing Try Occasion Did Just Where Rewriting Screenplay Found

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. Albert Bushnell Hart

Direct Colonies Had Feel Occasion Little Resent Prerogative Royal

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives. Alex Berenson

Matter Meetings Arch Occasion Executives Chief Candor Sarcasm Utter

People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves. Amy Cuddy

Best People Control Ability Rise Over Occasion Lot Selves Show

The one thing we need to do to continue to maintain Test cricket as being special is cutting down the amount and make it a real occasion rather than playing one after another. Andrew Flintoff

This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care. I worked as a TWA flight attendant then. I stood in my Ralph Lauren uniform at the boarding door and smiled at the passengers through lips coated with lipstick that perfectly matched the stripe on my jacket. Mostly, the passengers smiled back. Ann Hood

Care Ralph Ralph Lauren Took Back Flying Stripe Lauren Through Attendant Perfectly Smiled Occasion Mostly Matched Passengers Still Jacket Lips Lipstick Stood Door Grand Boarding Uniform Then Worked Planning Flight Special Event

Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century. Austin Clarke

Work Music Great Sense Eloquence Lyrical Lyrics Later Claim Tried Critics Occasion Him Least Tradition His Heard Yeats Close Closely Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Regarded Which Century Epoch English Found Brings

When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving. Benigno Aquino III

You Will Rest Country Group Thinking Once Out About Students Had Taking Talk Occasion How Leaving Were Hands Graduate Them Asked Congressman Who Many Seat Serving Raised Two

My first introduction to South Africa's struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother's stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion. Bernice King

Freedom Struggle Speak Mother First South Africa United Nations Unable Introduction Stead Had Attend Volunteered She Occasion Because Came South Just Nations Africa Forum United

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion. Brenda Lee

Wish Only Could Joyous Occasion Here

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen. Bryan Cranston

Time You People Wolf Cried Complains Right Reasons Everything About Occasion Boy Person Listen Just Then Who Reasons Right

I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event. Candice Olson

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Christian Scientists not only don't like to acknowledge illness; they don't like to see it. On occasion, I was sent to my room from the dinner table for sneezing or coughing; I now know that I was allergic to our cat. Caroline Fraser

Dinner Allergic Christian Our Dinner Table Table See Only Coughing Cat Like Know Occasion Scientists Acknowledge Room Sent Illness Now

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance. Cathy Freeman

Hope Visit Occasion Korea Very Again Personally Meaningful Chance

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