Occupation Quotes

553 Occupation quotes by 438 unique authors

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. — Bruce Springsteen
Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the… — Ruta Sepetys
...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more… — Tove Jansson
Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme. — Susan Abulhawa
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do… — Jeanette Winterson
Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of… — Susan Abulhawa
According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender,… — Gretchen Rubin
Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh. — Billy Connolly
I had a lot of things I wanted to do… I want to be a teacher…I also want to be an astronaut…and also make my… — Tite Kubo
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His… — Ambrose Bierce
...In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let… — Cassandra Clare
I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than… — Gerald Morris
Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success. — Cassandra Clare
Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life. — Confucius
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do… — William Lyon Phelps
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate… — Joseph Paxton
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. — Jerome K. Jerome
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced. — Michel de Montaigne
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy… — Blaise Pascal
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many… — Amartya Sen
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations. — Alexander Borodin
My sole occupation is love. — John of the Cross
Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for… — Rajneesh
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion. — Duke Ellington
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. — Cesare Pavese

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