We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach,… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage--only for… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused… — William Morris Hunt 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
The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention --… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
The military ain't there for the people's protection, They're just there to protect an investment. That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested,… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. — H. L. Mencken 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
I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of Windows— Superior—for Doors— Of Chambers as the Cedars— Impregnable of… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor. — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
