Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers. — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat… — Muqtada al Sadr 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
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is… — William James Copy Share Image
The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy… — William Osler 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
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
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
“... 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
There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image