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

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
Taylor Caldwell

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
Chely Wright

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
Anita Hill

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.
Julie Harris

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
Alexis Bledel

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
John Pomfret

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

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

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
Frances Burney

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.
George Woodcock

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

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Saint Teresa of Avila

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

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

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Samuel Butler

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
Buck Owens

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher