The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty? — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking. — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the… — Ben Edwards Copy Share Image
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
Most people heard about Hamas after Hamas started carrying out terrorist attacks. Hamas started out as an idea. Let's say a noble… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to… — Arthur Davison Ficke Copy Share Image
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation… — Colleen Coble Copy Share Image
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia . We are all very fond of including… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way. — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative — Eliot Wigginton Copy Share Image
