Happy Occasion Quotes

#1. If you want to celebrate a happy occasion, Do it by helping those who are in need.

Mohith Agadi

#2. War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

Ernest Becker

#3. Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Barry Goldwater

#4. I never questioned for a moment; that human awareness is destined to live in peace.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#5. I don't necessarily pay extreme attention to what I wear on a daily basis, but I do love to wear something special for an important occasion or when I feel happy.

Luke Evans

#6. I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

Alan Furst

#7. We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide

Jeffrey Eugenides

#9. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

Michael Moore

#10. We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

Mark Twain

#11. Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them?

Truman Capote

#12. You shouldn't miss opportunities to live life. It could always be your last chance.

Robyn Carr

#13. It is a challenge to believe that there was ever a time that airline food was exciting, when stewardesses were happy to see you, when flying was such an occasion that you wore your finest clothes. I

Bill Bryson

#14. The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.

Peggy Noonan

#15. But if we're going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it."
Toshak shrugged. "Do as you wish," he said. "Occasion or not, as long as they're all dead, I'm happy.

John Flanagan

#16. Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis ... Don't be afraid of putting on colour ... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Camille Pissarro

#17. I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

Paul O'Grady

#18. Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it.

John Glover

#19. The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.

Ryan Knighton

#20. Human potential is the ability of a person or humanity to put their theoretical abilities into practice

Sunday Adelaja

#21. I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Earl Weaver

#22. So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

Todd Rundgren