Occupation famous quotes

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
-- Abdallah II

#Dream #Design #Occupation

When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
-- Adam Beach

#Military #Energy #Occupation

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.
-- Agnes Macphail

#Men #Names #Occupation

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
-- Alan McGlashan

#Intelligent #Occupation #Fit

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
-- Albert Camus

#Love #Life #Occupation

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Research #Occupation #Systematic

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
-- Alberto Manguel

#Reading #Excellence #Occupation

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
-- Alexander Borodin

#Music #Relaxation #Occupation

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
-- Alice Hamilton

#Illinois #Occupation #Disease

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
-- Alonzo King

#Fearless #Ballet #Occupation

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Love You #Occupation #Busy

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Children #Employment #Occupation

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Work #Occupation #Paradise

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
-- Anne Bronte

#Book #Reading #Occupation

You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
-- Ariel Sharon

#Believe #Israel #Occupation

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch

#Occupation #Chess #Operations

Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty...
-- Arthur Davison Ficke

#Quests #Occupation #May

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.
-- Barbara Bergmann

#Jobs #Peculiar #Occupation

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#War #Men #Occupation

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#People #Occupation #Problem

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
-- Benjamin Spock

#Women #Trying #Occupation

Writing is a solitary occupation.
-- Bernard Cornwell

#Writing #Occupation #Solitary

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
-- Bernard Cornwell

#Occupation #Easier #Humdrum

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.
-- Bernard Cornwell

#Book #Research #Occupation

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
-- Bernard DeVoto

#Occupation #Cocktails #Evening

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Happiness #Men #Occupation

Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.
-- Bobby Sands

#Fate #Generations #Occupation

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Men #Occupation #May

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Occupation #Might #Certain

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.
-- Caroline Kennedy

#Book #Writing #Occupation

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
-- Cesare Pavese

#Patience #Waiting #Occupation

Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.
-- Colleen Coble

#Occupation #Stories #Unusual

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .
-- Confucius

#Occupation #May #Fit

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Writing #Trying #Occupation

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
-- David Lee Roth

#Occupation #Outrage #Threat

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.
-- David Riesman

#Occupation #Today #Consumers

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
-- Derrick Jensen

#Civilization #Culture #Occupation

the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.
-- Dervla Murphy

#Home #Loss #Occupation

LIFE: My favorite occupation.
-- Dirk Benedict

#Occupation #My Favorite

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Nuisance #World #Occupation

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
-- Duke Ellington

#Music #Occupation #Compulsion

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
-- Edgar Degas

#Beauty #Simple #Occupation

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
-- Edouard Boubat

#Differences #Buttons #Occupation

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Happiness #Joy #Occupation

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#People #Occupation #Rooms

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
-- Ernst Mach

#Views #Intellectual #Occupation

Another occupation might have been better.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Occupation #Might #Might Have Been

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
-- Fay Weldon

#Writing #Occupation #Profession

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.
-- Franz Wright

#Eye #Weight #Occupation

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
-- Frederick Sanger

#Research #Occupation #Exciting

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
-- Frederick William Robertson

#Discipline #Heaven #Occupation

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Humanity #Occupation

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
-- G. H. Hardy

#Occupation #Study #Innocent

I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.
-- Gary Reilly

#Heart #Years #Occupation

Occupation is the armor of the soul.
-- George Stillman Hillard

#Soul #Armor #Occupation

I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.
-- Gerald Morris

#Occupation #Persons

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
-- Germaine Greer

#Children #Real #Occupation

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
-- Gertrude Atherton

#Nursing #Occupation #Chance

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Character #Done #Occupation

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

#Occupation #Rooms #Improvement

When love is true there is no truer occupation.
-- Gordon Lightfoot

#Love Is #Occupation #Adages

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.
-- Graydon Carter

#Dying #Hussein #Occupation

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.
-- Gregory Mcdonald

#Jobs #Writing #Occupation

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
-- H. L. Mencken

#Believe #Religion #Occupation

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith

#Mind #Occupation #Hateful

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.
-- Hans Blix

#War #Democracy #Occupation

The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.
-- Harriet Quimby

#School #Flying #Occupation

There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.
-- Harriet Quimby

#Occupation #Reason #Should

The real danger to the worlds resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.
-- Hassan Nasrallah

#Real #Perspective #Occupation

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.
-- Hayley Williams

#Occupation #Want #Matter

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Business #Exercise #Occupation

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil....
-- Hippocrates

#Evil #Occupation #Idleness

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.
-- Holly Johnson

#Writing #Occupation #Consuming

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Occupation #Twins #Born

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
-- Iain Duncan Smith

#Jobs #Occupation #Lows

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.
-- Jacques de Lacretelle

#Men #Occupation #Divine

... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
-- James Clerk Maxwell

#Men #Years #Occupation

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.
-- James Tiptree Jr.

#Occupation #Firsts

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.
-- Janisse Ray

#Childhood #Tree #Occupation

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'
-- Jay Leno

#Actors #Occupation #Return

There is no way forward without ending the occupation.
-- Jean Parker

#Occupation #Way

Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.
-- Jean Parker

#Iraq #Quagmire #Occupation

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Yield #Giving #Occupation

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Solitude #Occupation #Want

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen

#Government #Order #Occupation

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
-- Jesse Jackson

#Iraq #Occupation #Invasion

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Jobs #Profound #Occupation

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
-- Johanna Lindsey

#Writing #Age #Occupation

My first occupation was to map the country.
-- John Hanning Speke

#Country #Maps #Occupation

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.
-- John Mortimer Smith

#Occupation #Able #Individual

My sole occupation is love.
-- John of the Cross

#Life #Love Life #Occupation

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
-- John Ray

#Men #Honor #Occupation

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
-- Jonathan Sacks

#Football #Years #Occupation

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.
-- Julianne MacLean

#Writing #Occupation #Way

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.
-- Kelly Link

#Writing #Fiction #Occupation

There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.
-- Khaled Mashal

#Israel #Occupation #Resistance

I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.
-- Khaled Mashal

#Community #United States #Occupation

There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.
-- Khaled Mashal

#Long #Occupation #Stability

We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.
-- Khaled Mashal

#Christian #Brother #Occupation

We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.
-- Khaled Mashal

#Occupation #Want #Removal