Occupation Quotes

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.

Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

Occupation is the armor of the soul.

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 his present occupation.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'

We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.