The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange,… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular. — James Avery Copy Share Image
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation… — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God. — Carrie Nation 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
Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation,… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers. — William F. Buckley, Jr 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