As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We declared jihad against the U.S. government because the U.S. government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in… — Gersonides Copy Share Image
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of… — Rohinton Mistry 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
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary,… — William Cowper 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
Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative. — William P. Perry Copy Share Image
Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world,… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation… — Kathleen Kenyon Copy Share Image
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
“In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular. — James Avery Copy Share Image
We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The… — Ed Garvey Copy Share Image
