Occasion

Famous quotes containing the word occasion:

“Discipline isn’t just punishing, forcing compliance or stamping out bad behavior. Rather, discipline has to do with teaching proper deportment, caring about others, controlling oneself and putting someone else’s wishes before one’s own when the occasion calls for it.”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)

“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)