Occupation Quotes

553 Occupation quotes by 438 unique authors

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the… — Ernst Mach
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans,… — David Duke
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day… — Agnes Repplier
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. — August Strindberg
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make… — Marcel Proust
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation… — Joseph Conrad
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. — Laurence Sterne
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to… — Phyllis McGinley
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. — Armand Hammer
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. — Johanna Lindsey
When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to… — Tia Mowry
No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our… — Steven Pressfield
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I… — Daniel Pinkwater
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of… — Manuel Puig
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years,… — Ted Rall
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. — Frederick Sanger
I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively… — Xanana Gusmao
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom. — Joyce Carol Oates
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the… — Rohinton Mistry
In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that… — Thomas Jefferson

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