Occupation Quotes

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

Another occupation might have been better.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.

There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

This is not violence, this is legitimate resistance. This is our people's right to resist Israeli occupation.

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.

Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

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 thing.

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

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 in something else.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it.

A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

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 says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

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 anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.