Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.
Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.
Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned. ' - Magnus Bane
This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that
Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.
It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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?
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.