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Quotes About Occasion

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.
~ Lee Pace
No. I rarely laugh. I really need to have a good reason to laugh.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I take the opportunity each day offers.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
Whenever I go out, I have to have a jacket on. I prefer casual ones for a party and semi-formal ones for events.
~ Armaan Malik
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.
~ James Fenton
I want you to be able to go to Aquazzura and find a shoe for every occasion, whether that's a red carpet ball or picking up your kids from school.
~ Edgardo Osorio
Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.
~ John Walters
Kimi Kanasket was a black mark on an otherwise joyous occasion, like the drunk uncle who causes a scene at a family wedding. You didn't acknowledge or talk about the incident. You quietly escorted him from the building so others could focus on the celebration, and when the family got together to remember that day, the blemish was never discussed, until, as the years passed, the incident was forgotten completely.
~ Robert Dugoni
Therefore she is bound, when her supernatural principles clash with human natural principles, to be the occasion of disunion. Her marriage laws, as a single example, are at conflict with the marriage laws of the majority of modern States. It is of no use to tell her to modify these principles; it would be to tell her to cease to be supernatural, to cease to be herself. How can
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: Doctor Who . Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet.
~ Libba Bray
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
~ Oscar Wilde
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
~ Herbert Hoover
I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for...because everyday was a special occasion with your father.
~ Donna VanLiere
You're going to worship the Lord? Dress for the occasion, please. And brush your hair. Anyway, no one had asked me to establish a Sunday-morning dress code for all the Christians of the world, so I'd just keep that nugget to myself.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.
~ Dr. Seuss
Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
~ Dick Pound
La buena reputación es conveniente dejarla caer a los pies de la cama hoy tienes una ocasión de demostrar que eres una mujer además de una dama.
~ Joaquín Sabina
For all things there is a place and time.
~ Jody Offen
The sympathy expressed in the tone of his voice and manner, proved that his happiness, on this occasion, almost equalled her own.
~ Ann Radcliffe
but one thing ye do not know, nor yet have investigated, to teach those to be wise who have no intellect! HIPP. A clever sophist this you speak of, who is able to compel those who have no wisdom to be rightly wise. But (for thou art arguing too refinedly on no suitable occasion) I fear, O father, lest thy tongue be talking at random through thy woes.
~ Euripides
To have occasion to…' In this space the statue of renunciation will be raised.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I wholly promote the omelette as a meal whatever the occasion, especially your last one.
~ Sam Heughan