Occupation Quotes

553 quotes by 444 authors

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine.… — Mahmoud Abbas
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there… — Bashar al-Assad
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. — Robert Baden-Powell
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she… — Erma Bombeck
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to… — John Burroughs
I am always the first to say that fame and entertainment is one of the best and easiest occupations to ever have, but one must… — Nick Cannon
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really… — Truman Capote
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last… — Graydon Carter
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. — Nick Cave
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world. — John Burroughs
Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel.… — Sun Tzu
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed… — Francois Fenelon
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… — Michel de Montaigne
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man… — Karel Capek
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and… — Vita Sackville-West
My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups… — Russell Page
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any… — Og Mandino
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage

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