Occupation Quotes

553 quotes by 438 authors

Praise is the highest occupation of any being — Max Lucado
The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from… — Harriet Quimby
We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and… — Jean-Claude Van Damme
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing. — Gautama Buddha
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with… — Plato
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.… — Unknown Author
Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent… — Mark Krikorian
It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who is… — Dahr Jamail
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge… — Abdallah II
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited… — Isabella Macdonald Alden
To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or… — Thomas Jefferson
The artistic path is a fearless occupation. — Alonzo King
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly… — Noah Webster
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.... — Hippocrates
The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist.… — Mavis Gallant
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from… — Marc Chagall
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. — Victoria Woodhull
For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my… — Vita Sackville-West
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels… — Pope Pius XII

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