Occasion Quotes

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.