[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation… — Angela Carter 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
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
Oh, yeah, I did the online dating thing. I did Nerve, I did Match. On Nerve there was this one guy who,… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today,… — Gideon Levy Copy Share Image
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad… — Robert Pape Copy Share Image
The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In every single case, the truth is that the atmosphere created by the Iraq invasion and the staggeringly mismanaged occupation has incited… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went… — Michael Franti 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
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
![“[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.” quote by Katherine Anne Porter](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f62/katherine-anne-porter-2653_doubt_on-gertrude-stein-s-making-of-americans_2447754.jpg)
![“Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals…” quote by Robert Pape](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/967/robert-pape-63904_broads_suicide-terrorist-groups-are-not-religio_2973374.jpg)
![“[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b4/virginia-woolf-49_career_final-diary-entry-occupation-is-essentia_578124.jpg)
