Professions Quotes

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. — Henry Adams
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for… — Octavia Butler
My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue… — Kirk Cameron
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away… — John le Carre
I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder… — Eppu Nuotio
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their… — Cesar Chavez
The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should… — Eduardo Chillida
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All professions are conspiracies against the laity. — George Bernard Shaw
With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant,… — Alexander Hamilton
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions. — Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting… — Andre Simon
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature… — Anton Chekhov
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and… — Samuel Adams
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows… — John Jay Chapman
If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know… — Jeanne Gang

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