Occupation Quotes

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

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, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.

Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

My occupation doesn't really allow for routines, but I'm pretty consistent about tea in the morning.

Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

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 problems.

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.