Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation. — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations. — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate… — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me… — Edouard Boubat 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
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
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
I've never seen a single demonstration in Pakistan, in the streets of Gaza, in the West Bank, in which the people have… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and… — Alexandra Sokoloff Copy Share Image
Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. — Gerard Debreu Copy Share Image
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image