Occupation Quotes · Page 5

“Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.”

— Leonard Cohen

You can't have occupation and human rights.

— Christopher Hitchens

The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.

— Kofi Annan

“When OSHA fails, social media is the backup plan!”

— Steven Magee

Writing is a very isolating occupation.

— Ellen Ullman

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

— Leigh Hunt

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Balllin not a hobby it my occupation

— Wiz Khalifa

“Creativity isn't an occupation, it's a preoccupation.”

— Gordon Torr

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

— Justin Adams

He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

— Leo Tolstoy

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

— Marthe Bibesco

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

— David Riesman

The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.

— Thomas Andrews

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

— Carrie Nation

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just…

— Ringo Starr

We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.

— Khaled Mashal

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending…

— Mahmoud Abbas

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

— Andy Serkis

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for…

— Bertrand Russell

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way…

— Wes Moore

I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very…

— Thomas Friedman

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my…

— Joe Gibbs

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

Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in…

— Gersonides

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

Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of…

— Rohinton Mistry

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

Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary,…

— William Cowper

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

Oh, yeah, I did the online dating thing. I did Nerve, I did Match. On Nerve there was this one guy who,…

— Julie Klausner

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve…

— Aristotle

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the…

— Jonathan Schell

“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that…

— Milan Kundera

“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after fifty years of…

— Ruta Sepetys

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when…

— Leo Tolstoy

Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger…

— Robert Fisk