#occasions

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#cowards #crisis #eyes #great #grow

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions. ↗

— George Woodcock

#difference #done #great #great deal #i

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur? ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#blessed #days #feet #first #first time

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions. ↗

— Julie Harris

#did #hair #i #i wish #many

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about. ↗

— Julie Harris

#director #given #more #much #occasions

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#fishing #occasions #only #prayer #presidents

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#education #high #i #list #now

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

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

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying. ↗

— Barney Frank

#anything #attention #democrats #disagree #forfeit