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Quotes About Occasion

There's nothing called a wrong time, there's just time and it's all yours to take up...
~ Unknown
the king had a royal residence there, and happily this is another occasion where history and archaeology touch hands,
~ Unknown
I will, and this is a promise, kick your ass." "Have you ever kicked anyone's ass?" Hirsch asked. "Ever? You were always kind of a girly-girl." Lowen slugged Hirsch in the arm. "I've been saving my kick-assery up for a special occasion," she said. "This could be it. You should feel honored.
~ John Scalzi
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
~ Julian Baggini
Opportunity is always around us. We just have to find it in the particular places according to proper timings...
~ Unknown
Human beings have used their incredible abilities to develop a staggering array of limiting beliefs, justifications and excuses for every occasion. What a waste!
~ Robert White
like this. A chance to
~ Marcus Sakey
Ecstasy affordsthe occasion and expediency determines the form.
~ Marianne Moore
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.
~ Isocrates
A party without cake is really just a meeting.
~ Julia Child
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska wont make it white.
~ Bing Crosby
You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."
~ Yogi Berra
If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.
~ John duover, Rites
To dream on occasion is not dreaming; to love on occasion is not love.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.
~ Martin Luther
CAKE DAY! CAKE DAY! THE best day of the year!
~ Unknown
Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
~ Mason Cooley
Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.
~ Max Allan Collins
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbor for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel; the sea is both friend and enemy; and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behavior in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion.
~ Michael Oakeshott
an occasional birthday dinner, and of course Marathon
~ Michael Palmer
Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;
~ Moliere