If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city,… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
“His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence… — Uri Avnery 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
Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I don't want to predict calamity. But I am afraid of a new Russian occupation of parts of Eastern Europe. Also of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact… — Jules Dervaes Copy Share Image
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
First of all, we occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and I'm not even talking about the past occupation of them, I'm just talking… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
