Occasions Quotes - Page 35

• The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Long, Faces, Misery

  28 Copy quote

• If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.

  Stefan Heym

  Running, West Germany, Democracy

  6 Copy quote

• We women need to rise to the occasion. The ayahuasca experience rebirths, inspires, empowers, and ignites us to do that. The Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit Grant is just one small way women can encourage and support women to take that journey and shine as they were born to do.

  Zoe Helene

  Journey, Ayahuasca, Empowering

  25 Copy quote

• David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?'

  Tea Leoni

  Shoes, Special, Will You Marry Me

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.

  Ayrton Senna

  People, Giving, Achievement

  70 Copy quote

• Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.

  Nina Dobrev

  Holiday, Cooks

  Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 23, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.

  Philip Neri

  Humility, Pride, Giving

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.34, St Athanasius Press

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

  Thornton Wilder

  Unique, Unbroken, Succession

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2582, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.

  Lewis Mumford

  Fashion, Fake, Events

  Lewis Mumford, Casey Nelson Blake (2000). “Art and Technics”, p.97, Columbia University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Portraits, Facts, Opinion

  4 Copy quote

• I never thought that Bill Clinton should be the president. When he was running to be the president of the United States, he said on over a hundred occasions, he said the following: He said, 'One of the great accomplishments while I was the governor of Arkansas, was to take my state in education from 50th to 49th.' And I thought, ' you know, Bill, you should keep that a secret.

  Lewis Black

  Running, Accomplishment, Secret

  12 Copy quote

• You might be a redneck if you have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Baseball, Redneck, Special

  7 Copy quote

• Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community and as a nation. But I suspect that most people in the country would think, given that there is very little money around, that this probably would not be the top of their list of priorities for the use of scarce public resources.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Thinking, Diamond Jubilee

  "'The haves and have yachts': Clegg blasts Gove's call for a new royal ship for the Queen as a Jubilee present". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 16, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It doesn't really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other's films, I guess, but there isn't some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven't invited me.

  Will Ferrell

  Running, Bars, Film

  "The $29 million man" by Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2006.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions.

  Doug Stanhope

  Alcohol, Vodka, Wells

  9 Copy quote

• When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

  Michael Owen

  Team, Player, England

  15 Copy quote

• White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.

  Greg Proops

  Ice Cream, Two, White

  15 Copy quote

• Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

  Michael Lesy

  Important, Church, Might

  4 Copy quote

• In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political weapon. Such effects arise from its technique of juxtaposing heterogeneous, unrelated pieces of reality torn from their context. A good photomontage has the same effect as a good joke.

  Gyorgy Lukacs

  Powerful, Reality, Political

  11 Copy quote

• The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.

  John Zerzan

  Keys, World, Firsts

  John Zerzan (2002). “Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memories, Never Quit, Wonderful

  6 Copy quote

• On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.

  A. Curtiss

  Book, Heart, Knowing

  5 Copy quote

• Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.

  James Walsh

  Couple, People, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• ... as we are being blunt, the fact is that Tony [Abbott] and the people who put him in his job do not want to do anything about climate change. They do not believe in human caused global warming. As Tony observed on one occasion "climate change is crap" or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, its cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world.

  Nick Minchin

  Jobs, Believe, Wings

  4 Copy quote