Occupation Quotes

Occupation Quote of the day

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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 transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

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.

When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

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 father Time shake his glass.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

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.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

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 numbers will grow - and they will win.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

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 whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel failed to defeat.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.

Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.