And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"
I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.
No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.
Woolsey bites on occasion
There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness.
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.