#occasion

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#believe #conferences #effective #focused #gatherings

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#even #exercises #good #interrupted #many

We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#bite #broadway #may #occasionally #onto

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#adult #also #danish #deal #demands

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? ↗

— Christian Bale

#challenge #day #disappointment #done #each

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. ↗

— Bob Hope

#give #glow #great #greatest #happiness

There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing. ↗

— Robert McFarlane

#bully #deal #different #different kinds #doing

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. ↗

— Charles Tennyson Turner

#had #known #louis #night #occasional

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#consists #degree #different #exerted #knowing

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially