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Quotes About Occasions

It is not only great occasions which call for strength beyond our own; ordinary people who go about their daily duties feel the need of God's strength to help them, and God's shield to protect them from harm. The chief cause of unhappiness in modern times is fear, said Mr. Orme; fear of illness, fear of the future, fear of death; but the heart that trusts in the Lord fears nothing.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Fashion has been something that I have been really into since a very long time. Every girl likes dressing up, and I am that kind of a girl who take a little time to dress up. I love to dress up at occasions.
~ Kriti Sanon
He's Black Council, I said. Or maybe stupid, Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. Not sure which is scarier. Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.
~ Jim Butcher
Do all wizards, he said, get the kiddie crowns and war them around? Or is that only for special occasions? Do all werewolves, I shot back, snatching the crown from my head, wear glasses and too much Old Spice? Or is taht only for full moons?
~ Jim Butcher
Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.
~ Jim Butcher
He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness; You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures. He is the Truth. Seek Him in the Kingdom of Anxiety; You will come to a great city that has expected your return for years. He is the Life. Love Him in the World of the Flesh; And at your marriage all its occasions shall dance for joy.
~ W.H. Auden
Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning, Shane said. Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?
~ Rachel Caine
On those rare occasions when he is arrested, charges are quietly dropped
~ Dean Koontz
Vain of his hair, which was blond and thick, he didn't commonly wear a wig, choosing instead to bind and powder his own for formal occasions. The present occasion wasn't formal in the least. With the advent of freshwater aboard, Tom had insisted upon washing Grey's hair that morning, and it was still spread loose upon his shoulders, though it had long since dried.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Now the etiquette of war required that on such occasions no blood should be spilt, unless the weaker party proved to be a man of rank or ability equal to that of the stronger.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
there are numerous depressing occasions to wonder if waking consciousness is all there is to consciousness, or to human life
~ Unknown
in these times, it appears they were directly related to fresh empowerment for His self-less, sacrificial service. There are also occasions where Jesus blesses people, but His exact words are not given (Mark 10:16; Luke 24:50). In the final part of this book we will look at the
~ Daniel Henderson
Muzaffarnagar is 40 kilometers from my village. So I used to see films if I was able to save money and on special occasions like Eid, Diwali.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
A lady is in the newspaper but three times in her life. When she is born—" "When she marries and when she dies
~ Louis Bayard
What is it about such occasions of timeless time that afterwards makes them seem touched with such a precious, melancholy sweetness? Sometimes it seems to me that it is in those vacant intervals, without my being aware of it, that my true life has been most authentically lived.
~ John Banville
Bun.  That practice of theirs, I abhor, said I; yet it doth not follow that, because they did so, therefore all others will do so.  I look upon it as my duty to behave myself under the King's government, both as becomes a man and a Christian, and if an occasion were offered me, I should willingly manifest my loyalty to my Prince, both by word and deed.
~ John Bunyan
Christmas = Gifts . Halloween = Candy . Thanksgiving = Food . New Years = Drinks . Valentines = Sex . Birthday = All Of The Above.
~ Unknown
Finding clothes to wear on occasions are fu..ing hard. Gowns and everything, the make up, the bags with accessories. Oh God.
~ Unknown
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
~ Michel de Montaigne
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
she was also an extremely poor one, and, as he himself had lost his fortune, they went scarcely anywhere, and were the sort of people who were apt to be overlooked except on great occasions, when they had the good fortune to bury or marry a relative.
~ Marcel Proust
It was one of those rare occasions when my low expectations of others went unfulfilled.
~ Marcia Clark
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.
~ Marisha Pessl