Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
Clement Freud

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.
David Ricardo

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
Robert Walpole

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Osbert Lancaster

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
Thomas Day

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett Marden

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
Bill Nye