Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation. — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers. — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on… — Giuliana Sgrena Copy Share Image
Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation,… — Plato Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“They came here on Sunday, 30th June, 1940, after bombing us two days before. They said they hadn't meant to bomb us;… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it… — David Swing Copy Share Image
In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
![“By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album.” quote by George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/800/george-carlin-155_albums_by-the-next-one-albom-occupation-foole-i_640899.jpg)
![“Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably…” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae7/george-washington-257_bounds_upon-the-decease-of-my-wife-it-is-my-wil_3182279.jpg)
