Occasions Quotes - Page 6

• I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

  Anita Hill

  Regret, Saying No, Suggestions

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Jesus, Who I Am, People

  Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry (1977). “Helter skelter: an investigation into motive”

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• I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.

  William Klein

  Moving, Book, People

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• There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Years, Boulders, Moved

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• You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!

  Tyler Ward

  Home, Challenges, Trying

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• Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

  J. J. Johnson

  Needs, Looks, Noses

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• In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Blow, Water, Made

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• Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Mistake, Frustration, Choices

  "I feel angry, jealous, self-obsessed and lost - and I need to change" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2013.

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• On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

  Francois Arago

  Powerful, Eye, Science

  François Arago, William Henry Smyth, Baden Powell, Robert Grant, Sir William Fairbairn (1859). “Biographies of distinguished scientific men”, p.347

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• I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

  Joan Blades

  Activist

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• 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.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Hands, Unhappy, Use

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Latin, Fall, Rights

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• A voice in me said, You have to rise to the occasion or the best in you will die. We always have that voice; we just have to make a choice to listen to it. We all have it; that's God's given light. It's just whether you have the courage to step into your destiny.

  Lily Yeh

  Destiny, Light, Voice

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• The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Teacher, Reality, Past

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• If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

  Erin Kelly

  Clothes, Half, Way

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• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

  Aristotle

  May, Revolution, Rebellious

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• I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

  George Best

  Mistake, Lying, Deceit

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• Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: "soap," in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, Laughter, Book

  Chester A. Arthur's remarks concerned the presidential election of 1880, as quoted in "The New York Times", February 12, 1881.

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• When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Music, Spiritual, Doe

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• 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.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Practice, Consumption

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• Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.

  Hugh Black

  Prayer, Attitude, Communication

  Hugh Black (1999). “The Art of Being a Good Friend: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Friends and in Yourself”, p.142, Sophia Institute Press

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• It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Spring, Apes, Curious

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

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• Ron Hubbard was trying to get people out of their body with his HCA courses, but frankly, he was failing badly. When I was a staff member, occasions came up that I was asked to help some member of the graduating class to get a reality on out-of-body experiences...Hubbard would never acknowledge this ability of mine, and after leaving him I did a lot of experimenting.

  Paul Twitchell

  Reality, Class, People

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

  Zebulon Pike

  Flags, Flag Day, Medal

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.

  Paul David Tripp

  Heart, People, Admitting

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