Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.
Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body. ' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
Courage mounteth with occasion.
Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. . . The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Supreme Court nominations are an occasion to pause and reflect on the values that make our nation strong, just and fair. And we must determine whether a nominee has a demonstrated commitment to those basic values.
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.
Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives -- was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.
I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.
The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.
One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
One time, the homie Venus[-X] read me; we were on the phone and she was like, "Girl, you keep wearing jeans and t-shirts at your shows, but the music doesn't give that. " I was like, "You're right, I need to be the person that I am at school, making dance and choreography. I should think about the whole performance. " That's when I put the 1 in my name and started dressing for the occasion.