#occasion

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#bounds #completely #easy #ethical #extent

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#education #everything #foolish #i #interest

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#apple #cider #eat #enjoy #especially

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. ↗

— Richard Whately

#as far as #birth #concerned #far #give

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #draw #i #life #my life

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. ↗

— McGeorge Bundy

#evil #evils #lesser #occasionally #two

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charge #forgive #forgive me #give me #grape

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#boston #composed #did #done #ever

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#began #behind #classical #classical music #ear