#occasion

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#airlines #course #damage #goods #injury

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising #been #bitter #cannot #consumer

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#aware #certainly #dominate #fashion #i

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#either #everybody #full #i #into

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. ↗

— Lou Reed

#been #big #big thing #chord #how

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#bad #created #during #few #great

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#get #great #had #his #known

In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.' ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

#blow #difficult #function #likelihood #made

I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion. ↗

— Ben Savage

#dinner #girl #i #i think #more

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#be happy #certain #change #constitute #departure