Occasions Quotes - Page 25

• The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  Emily Post

  Believe, Guests, Helping

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• To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

  James Madison

  Government, Land, House

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• I've never worn a dress shirt that's been comfortable. I've always just worn dress shoes. On more than one occasion, I've heard that a champion should dress like a champion. But I'm a champion because of who I am. Who I am is not that guy. If everybody wears three-piece suits, everyone looks the same.

  CM Punk

  Who I Am, Shoes, Guy

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

  Michael Kors

  Fall, Weekend, Night

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Loss, Men

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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• Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Loss, Night, Important

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

  Francis Beaumont

  Men, Thinking, Secret

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• Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

  Marilyn French

  Eye, Milk, Tvs

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

  Thomas Sprat

  Charity, Giver, Receiver

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• None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

  John Tillotson

  Scoffing, Profanity, Trifling

  John Tillotson (1720). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith”, p.37

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• If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Lasts, Needs

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.18

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• How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Self, Order, Camouflage

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.

  Pierre Charron

  Gratitude, Mind, Together

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• I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Kind, Remember, Journalist

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• A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Politics, Politician, Statesmen

  Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.247, Boston : Little, Brown

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• We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Home, Quality, Dresses

  Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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• In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.

  Kylie Tennant

  Men, Cities, Community

  Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

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• Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

  Marcella Hazan

  Art, Home, Accomplishment

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• The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Evil, World

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Decision, Half, Example

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• I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea that a story is sort of a site for making cool language effects - a site for celebrating language, and, therefore, the world. And the brevity is part of the challenge. I like stories because I get them - I know how to make beauty, or something like beauty, in that mode.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Ideas, Challenges

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.

  Richard A. Proctor

  Strong, Struggle, Exercise

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• Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Friends, Mean, People

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