#occasions

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#certain #i #in the past #occasions #past

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

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#make #man #occasions #show #strong

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #certain #government #i #i wish

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#discretion #judgment #occasions #required #upon

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#more #occasions #other #put #sin

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

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