Quotes About Occasion

Thank you for inviting me to take part in this special day.

Let us toast the health of the bride; let us toast the health of the groom, let us toast the person that tied; let us toast every guest in the room.

My bus carried at least a few soldiers in civilian disguise, although the rest of the General's in-laws and cousins were mostly women and children. These passengers murmured among themselves, complaining of this or that, which I ignored. Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.

Would you look at you two? What's the special occa-ouch!

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

And therefore he must look about him and see who is valiant, who is high-minded, who is wise, who is wealthy; happy man, he is the enemy of them all, and must seek occasion against them whether he will or no, until he has made a purgation of the State. Yes, he said, and a rare purgation. Yes, I said, not the sort of purgation which the physicians make of the body; for they take away the worse and leave the better part, but he does the reverse. If

On that cold day I was born, in February 1955, my great-aunt gave me a classic fruitcake for the celebration of the occasion of my birth. Every year during the holidays I pull it out of the attic and take a look at it and it still looks great, and every year I try to get up the nerve to take a slice and try it. —Dean Fearing, chef of The Mansion on Turtle Creek

I approach styling as if I were a woman and what I would want to wear to a certain event.

At the end of the day, you should take every opportunity that comes your way.

It doesn't really matter what the occasion is—big or small—but it's the connections that we have with people we love that nourish our souls. Entertaining isn't just about making dinner parties. It's about celebrating those connections and I think that's what makes life worth living.

Think of this book as a new genre altogether—a when-to book.

I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble is caused by fear: fear of breaking the 'fashion rules,' fear of violating some long-forgotten tradition, or the basic fear of looking bad.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

I'll always remember your birthday because it's around the same time as something more important than your birthday.

You always have such fun birthdays; you should have one every year.

Have an amazing birthday. It only comes one day a year so do something to make it memorable! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

If there's a local reeling party, I might go to that.

Timing Is Everything

Anyway, there's a time and place for everything, and while this may have been the place, it wasn't the time.

His first impulse, when he saw the horse and rider ahead, was to honk, both in self-advertisement, warning and greeting, but he remembered in time the seriousness of the occasion and did not do so, reflecting, after it was too late, that Thomas might feel he was snubbed, as if he had passed him in the street without speaking, and he was angry with Thomas for possibly having any such feeling about such petty matters, at such a time.

The devil and temptations also afford us occasion to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without these we should never understand them, however diligently we read and listened to them.

Maria's subsequent marriage provided a splendid occasion. The groom was Prince Franz Wilhelm ... a great-grandson of the last German kaiser and a cousin of Louis Ferdinand .... Once again the genes of the greater European royal family were pooled. The king and queen of Spain and a number of royal exiles from Italy, Bulgaria, Albania, Portugal and Egypt inflated the importance of the wedding with their presence.