Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds. — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next.… — Rudy Ruettiger Copy Share Image
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution… — William Hague Copy Share Image
There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in… — Gersonides Copy Share Image
We declared jihad against the U.S. government because the U.S. government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated… — Marwan Barghouti Copy Share Image
I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Both Israel and the United States have mounted attacks on 'lawfare', that is, counter-hegemonic uses of international law to question policies associated… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I think Syriza and Podemos are very, very different from Sinn Féin in many ways, and so I wouldn't put all three… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good. — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women. — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
