man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between yesterday occupation & today's freedom.” — Islam A. ElDegwi Copy Share Image
The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it. — Thomas Andrews Copy Share Image
Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God. — Carrie Nation Copy Share Image
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be… — Peter Sarnak 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
Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by… — Mahmoud al-Zahar Copy Share Image
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than… — Nancy Chodorow Copy Share Image
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men,… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
“From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image