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Quotes About Occasion

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.
~ Julie Harris
The moment rules over everything.
~ David Hockney
When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.
~ Cheech Marin
I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
~ Raymond Berry
For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us.
~ Jean-Marie Messier
Revolutions occurred in almost every European city with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The occasion for the revolutions was hunger.
~ A.J.P. Taylor
The dey of Algiers took the occasion of the War of 1812 to renege on his treaty obligations with the United States;
~ Adrian Tinniswood
I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer.
~ Aretha Franklin
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
~ Publilius Syrus
I don't follow what is in fashion now; I just listen to myself and what I like... I wait for the right occasion or see how I feel each day.
~ Melania Trump
I don't ever have the opportunity to wear a suit.
~ George Stroumboulopoulos
My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
If I've got an event coming up, I might buy myself a new suit. I prefer wearing suits to dresses - I reckon I've got about 15.
~ Nicola Adams
I always have three or four suits; there's always an engagement to wear something from a suit.
~ Henry Golding
I don't really get the opportunity to wear many suits.
~ Mason Mount
Why had they found us? For the occasion his death gave them to express their protestations, a time and place to come together looking in a common direction? Did it signify love or politicized hate?
~ Ralph Ellison
O Virgins sacrosanct! if ever hunger, Vigils, or cold for you I have endured, The occasion spurs me their reward to claim!
~ Joseph Conrad
Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father repeated this good joke at every opportunity.
~ Joseph Heller
3. There is a text in its boldness. There is a congregation, perhaps reduced and diminished by fatigue. Third, there is this specific occasion for speech.
~ Walter Brueggemann
How large is occasion noise relative to total system noise?
~ Daniel Kahneman
Gibbs was assigned to roust the president. I had left my room so hastily that my hair was standing straight up in the air. When Obama arrived, perfectly groomed, and saw me, he also saw his perfect, unwitting foil. "Axe, I see you decided to dress up as Kim Jong-Il for the occasion," he said, a reference to the North Korean leader with the famously bizarre hairstyle.
~ David Axelrod
Okay. It's time for a cheese moment. You don't get these often. Are you ready for it?
~ James Dashner
Mrs. Whittaker's dress was always studiously suited to its occasion; thus, her bearing had always that calm that only the correctly attired may enjoy.
~ Dorothy Parker
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
~ John Legend