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Quotes About Occasion

Bottom line, wasn't life itself a special occasion?
~ Jan Karon
I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.
~ Elena Ferrante
Un helado es un almuerzo maravilloso cuando se está de celebración.
~ Antonia Michaelis
lemme spell it out it's not an equation you're the border and i'm the nation you're talkin peace i'm under occupation so what's better? isolation? oh fuck that i need a relation a station without limitation another minute before i begin my invasion and then we can rise to the sweet occasion
~ Antonio Pagliarulo
People talking big about the passion in each profession and at every occasion has been always in fashion since old generations but very rarely seen in any employed person.
~ Anuj Somany
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
~ Art Buchwald
Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.
~ Kamla Persad-Bissessar
In the time of social media, I get lots of wishes. It's overwhelming! What makes the day most special is the love I get from my fans, who try to make the occasion extra special. Almost 50 days before my birthday, they have started making plans. In fact, I have been receiving letters, too.
~ Harshvardhan Rane
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don't cross.
~ Florence King
In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect.
~ Nina Garcia
When plays present themselves, I can't miss 'em. I got to make 'em.
~ Aaron Donald
Remember, that to change thy mind upon occasion, and to follow him that is able to rectify thee, is equally ingenuous, as to find out at the first, what is right and just, without help. For of thee nothing is required, ti, is beyond the extent of thine own deliberation and jun. merit, and of thine own understanding.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
~ Art Buchwald
When it's your time, it is your time.
~ Bruno Mars
Spontaneity has its time and its place.
~ Arthur F. Burns
When Pang was barely out of toddlerhood, she zoomed in and out of the apartment unsupervised, playing with plastic bags and, on occasion, with a large butcher knife.
~ Anne Fadiman
At about twenty she had mentioned it quite seriously at the dinner table. It was the only occasion she could recall of every member of her family laughing at once.
~ Anne Perry
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.
~ Dorothy Osborne
So much in life came down to timing.
~ Kate Morton
Timing in life is everything.
~ Leonard Maltin
A dog hath a day.
~ John Heywood
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
Properties of divine decrees Let us now consider some of the properties of the divine decrees. First, they are eternal. To suppose any of them to be made in time is to suppose that some new occasion has occurred; some unforeseen event or combination of circumstances has arisen, which has induced the Most High to form a new resolution. This would argue that the knowledge of the Deity is limited, and that He is growing wiser in the progress of time—which would be horrible blasphemy.
~ Arthur W. Pink