#occasions

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#because #becomes #conceived #continues #contradicts

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. ↗

— Maria Monk

#altar #assembled #before #belonging #ceremony

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#encouraged #had #himself #kennedy #lover

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

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father. ↗

— Henry Benedict Stuart

#cause #father #feelings #give #greatest

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

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