Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing… — Mohammed Omar Copy Share Image
Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it?… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he… — Robert Powell 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
Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 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
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food.… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone… — Siouxsie Sioux 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
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why,… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Most of our occupations are low comedy… We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop… — Ralph Allen Copy Share Image
History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced. — Anonymous 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
