Occupation Quotes

553 quotes by 438 authors

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist… — Scott Ritter
Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the… — Bruno Schulz
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. — Holly Johnson
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that… — Giacomo Casanova
To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person. — Alan McGlashan
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This… — Ahmed Ben Bella
More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with… — Michael K. Powell
We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation,… — Jalal Talabani
It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always… — William Faulkner
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined… — Lee Kuan Yew
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning… — Lee Kuan Yew
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an… — Jon Lee Anderson
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief… — Alexander Borodin
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative… — Hilma Wolitzer
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. — Susan Orlean
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once… — Anne Tyler
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P T Barnum

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