#occasion

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#area #audio #away #bin #his

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. ↗

— George Saunders

#connection #feel #human #left #might

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#man #occasion #only

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it. ↗

— Brian Cox

#anymore #bad #because #become #diminishing

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#common sense #continual #love #occasional #passion

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#made #merely #misused #necessarily #occasion

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#like #occasionally #princesses #see #up

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#both #daily #daily life #every #facet

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#been #being #certain #certain things #delightful