Occupation Quotes

553 Occupation quotes by 438 unique authors

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let… — William Congreve
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. — William Cowper
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland… — Mahmoud Darwish
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and… — Peter Drucker
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? — Roger Ebert
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It… — William Hague
Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the… — Ismail Haniyeh
The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped.… — Ismail Haniyeh
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone… — Rutherford B. Hayes
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it… — William Morris Hunt
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. — William James
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good… — Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. — Thomas Jefferson
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help,… — Caroline Kennedy
I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good. — Lil Kim
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. — Sinclair Lewis
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. — George Lucas
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry R. Luce
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better… — Orison Swett Marden
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. — H. L. Mencken
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their… — Michael Moore

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