Occupation Quotes
553 quotes by 444 authors
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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
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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
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
— Nick Cave
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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