My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person. — Alan McGlashan Copy Share Image
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire 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
I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
[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
I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it… — Barack Obama 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
Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Occupation maybe means when army of another country enters our country and refuses to return to their country on one pretext or… — Tarif Naaz Copy Share Image
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My occupation doesn't really allow for routines, but I'm pretty consistent about tea in the morning. — Asher Roth Copy Share Image
The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds. — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
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