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
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
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
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches,… — Hildegard Peplau Copy Share Image
Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has… — John Monash Copy Share Image
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs,… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and… — Yasser Arafat 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
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly.… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation. — Jean Parker Copy Share Image
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the… — Mohammed Dahlan Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
