Occupation Quotes
553 quotes by 438 authors
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
— Rebecca West
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To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
— George Santayana
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
— Frank Moore Colby
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But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.
— John Abizaid
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since…
— Henri Poincare
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
— Louise Brooks
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The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
— Frederick William Robertson
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Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.
— Malcolm Mclaren
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Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
— William Tyndale
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Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .
— Confucius
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage…
— Andre Simon
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels…
— Blaise Pascal
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Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
— Anne Sexton
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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
— G. H. Hardy
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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…
— George Washington
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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