My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man. — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush. — Segolene Royal Copy Share Image
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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