Occasion Quotes

As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn’t manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should’ve done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

A song marks an occasion in my life and that’s how I live my life, by songs.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

Before ‘Twilight,’ occasionally I would get the ‘Hey are you that girl from that movie?’ but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it’s very flattering.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.