Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way. — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. — Wilhelm von Humboldt 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
The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is… — William James 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
We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in… — Ken Wilber 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
In every single case, the truth is that the atmosphere created by the Iraq invasion and the staggeringly mismanaged occupation has incited… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and… — Virginia Woolf 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
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
[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
“Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins… — Christina Engela 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
The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening.… — Edwidge Danticat 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
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. — William Cowper 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 list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. — Noam Chomsky 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
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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