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“I don't think that I have been treated kindly or fairly by a certain portion of the gay community. Most of the rest don't know what to make of me. On the occasions that I have had the opportunity to present myself to the community, I have gotten a positive response.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Certain Opportunity Community Gay Response Treated Occasions Portions Gay Community Positive Response

Author:Jeff Gannon

“I believe that women are rising to the occasion to tackle many challenges. Whether it's issues that relate to prosperity, the defense of country, the economy of our country; issues that have traditionally been considered women's issues like health and education and the environment are now being defined in terms of our national strength. So I think women have made a big difference in putting things in perspective.”

“There are establishment Republicans who think Ted Cruz is not a likable guy. I don't understand that. I've had occasion to meet him twice, but just watching him on television, he's not unlikable, he's an dislikable.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I have had the advantage of the opportunity to meet with Mr. Trump on several occasions. And my experience is that he's very intelligent. He's thirsty for information. He wants to hear what you have to say. He listens to his advisers. He digests the information very quickly, and he's got a good memory, because I remember one time I was talking to him about something, and then he pulled some information out of his memory banks that was a great connection that I hadn't even thought to mention to him.”

Want Remember Opportunity Memories Talking Information Trump Advantage Connections Intelligent Occasions One Time Thirsty Good Memories Adviser Talking To Him

Author:Kris Kobach

“Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.”

Thinking Way Real Self Individual Grows Imagine Magic Creation Changed Definitions Valuable Occasions Transformed Alchemist Crucible

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.”

Looks Moments Wish Half Advice Instinct Glasses Occasions Acknowledge Insecurity Trusted Stressed Half Full

Author:Kylie Minogue

“Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.”

Humans Law Rights Human Rights Occasions Protected Ignored Neglected Rule Of Law

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“PMA is the right mental attitude for each specific occasion. It has the power to attract the good and the beautiful. NMA repels them. It is a negative mental attitude that robs you of all that makes life worth living.”

Beautiful Attitude Negative Occasions Worth Living Mental Attitude Life Worth Living

Author:W. Clement Stone

“It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether it's Jimmy Carter or Woodrow Wilson or Harry Truman - that's just great. FDR inscribing Bibles and sending them to the troops. God bless him! But when a Republican president cites Jesus Christ as his favorite philosopher, as George W. Bush did on a famous occasion, then, well, the liberals cry out that [Tomás de] Torquemada is on the loose and warn gravely of the coming Inquisition.”

“The American people have on many occasions been willing to shed their own blood for a noble cause, like when hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in the fight against fascism in Europe, and other causes. There are many good people there, and the Cuban people know the American people, we have many examples of solidarity from the American people in every stage of the Cuban people's fight for independence.”

People Knows Fighting Causes Blood Stage Example Willing Europe Independence Noble Occasions Good People Fascism Shed Solidarity Cuban Noble Causes

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party.”

Knows Different Real Use Levels Party Special Stage Television Occasions Jimmy Gowns Different Levels Special Occasion

Author:Diana Ross

“Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are more sound oriented. Or I'll try to incorporate those languages and occasions somehow.”

Ifs Trying Choices Reading Language Sound Issues Occasions Venezuela Vienna

Author:Anne Waldman

“During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.”

Years Three Winning Careers Five Four Team West Finals Occasions Coaching Texas Championship Three Times Indiana National Championships West Point

Author:Bobby Knight

“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?”

Should I Can Done Felt Challenges Disappointment Manage Occasions

Author:Christian Bale

“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.”

Hands Certain Deals Bears Weight Occasions Prose Fierce Moderates

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.”

I Can Remember Three Names Hours Study Wife Forgotten Scripts My Wife Occasions Seconds

Author:Don Adams

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

Thinking Wisdom Past Time Change History Cases Quiet Difficulty Obstacles Occasions Civil War Dogma Inadequate Stormy Unschooling Stormy Days

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”

Men Made Quality Destiny Greatness Occasions Great Men

Book:Literary and political addresses

Source: Literary and political addresses

“I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.”

Moments Alive Childhood Occasions Awake Joyous Coma

Author:John Lydon

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

“Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.”

Use Opportunity Chance Education Prepared Profit Valuable Ridiculous Educated Occasions Preparation Proportion

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Source: ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...

“I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it gives me to think that today will be different from yesterday, that I will find an interesting comment or poke or video, and on the extremely rare occasion when that happens, I am just thrilled.”

Thinking Giving Different Feelings Happens Today Interesting Huge Give Me Regard Yesterday Video Occasions Comment Bores Crave Refrain Participating Poke Rare Occasion

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”

Life Inspirational Belief Effects Habit Occasions Excess Moderation Exhilarating

Book:The Summing Up

Source: The Summing Up

“Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.”

Firsts Christ Alive Events Occasions Easter Easter Season Religious Easter

Author:Josh McDowell

“A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.”

Social Members Occasions Tone Ritual Indifferent Blueprints Specifications Every Occasion

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.”

Men Whole Certain Universe Strange Jokes Affair Practicals Occasions Practical Joke

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.”

Should Funny Used Crazy Silly Occasions Funny Inspirational Birth Control Contraception Contraceptives

Author:Spike Milligan

“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.”

Long Degrees Anger Scripture Occasions Inevitable Inadequate Provocation

Author:Wilson Mizner

“Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.”

Literature Capacity Occasions Unlimited Indulge Indulge In Frenchmen Gallantry Every Occasion

Author:Moliere

“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.”

Used Views Numbers Rich Dresses Occasions Forty Belonging Veils Ceremony Spectators Altars Chapel

Book:Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal

Source: Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal

“I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.”

Facts School Remember Girl Attention Boys Special Subjects High School My Friends Dresses Size Occasions Remember When Bothered Wardrobe Special Occasion

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.”

Needs May Success Effort Achieve Degrees Thirds Strive Accomplish Occasions Fourth

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”

Should Different Knowing Degrees Administration Occasions Sublimity

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.”

Writing Trying Found Occasions Screenplays Rewriting Unendurable

Author:Alan Moore

“I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.”

Years Sometimes Reason Home Light Night Rounds Believer Mood Occasions Firm Reason Why Fairy Strings Concerts Lighting Decor Home Decor

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.”

Inspirational Ideas Night Sleep Walking Flow Occasions Meals Carriages Good Meals

Book:Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Source: Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.”

Giving Found Records Particular Judging Percent Wine Occasions Voting Multiple Rating Researchers Inconsistent

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.”

Mind Different Political Causes Space Stage Organization Tables Dollars Occasions Candidates Guarantees Voters Tickets Behalf Political Candidates

Author:Conor Oberst

“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.”

Has Beens Found Results Economy Fields Taught Products Tests Bitter Advertising Occasions Consumers Inferiors Rare Occasion Bitter Experience

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.”

Trying Persons Film Knowing Position Directors Occasions Hats Justify Finding Yourself Film Set Good Directors Barometer

Author:Gary Oldman

“I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.”

Moments Happens Born Occasions Halloween Great Moments

Author:Susan Orlean

“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.”

Men Grows Courage Duty Constitution Bravery Arise Occasions Uniforms Forsake

Author:Joseph Addison

“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.”

People Roles Fashion Occasions Association My Thoughts

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.”

Knows Mother Enjoy Team Hair Shoes Occasions Consideration Fashionable Work Day

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.”

Way Heart Turns Sex Christ Glory Attraction Significant Occasions Orientation Glorify Abstinence Enrichment

Author:John Piper

“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”

“Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.”

Years Lasts Memories Grief Horror Nine Occasions Artistic Zero Site Reminders Parody Nine Years Ground Zero

Author:John Podhoretz

“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”

Men Love Heart Self Sacrifice Tests Mere Occasions Brutes Fidelity Unselfish Unselfishness Unselfish Love

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.”

Humans Human Beings Saws Color Occasions

Author:Sidney Poitier

“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.”

Knows Wells Use Easy Moral Know How Shapes Bounds Occasions Liars Ethical Skillful

Author:Sidney Poitier