Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

— Voltaire

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

— Joe Orton

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying…

— Cindy Sheehan

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

You do research into specific occupations of the character, with specific behaviorisms that their daily life might give them. You do as much research…

— Guy Burnet

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that…

— Bashar al-Assad

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had…

— Eoin Colfer

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern…

— Jack Schwartz

The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go…

— Amr Moussa

For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly love directing…

— Nicholas Ozeki

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

— Alberto Manguel

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…

— Arundhati Roy

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely…

— Terry Eagleton

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

— Tom Segev

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most…

— James Boswell