Occupation Quotes
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not.
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From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
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My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.
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Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
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Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
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When asked her occupation: Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
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I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.
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Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.
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Occupation is the scythe of time.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention -- international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.
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Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.
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The ballpoint pen was invented by László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply!
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This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and the Palestinian people, a struggle that centers on Palestinian land, history, civilization, culture and identityAs for your judicial apparatus, which is where this court comes from: it is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation, in addition to consecrating its systems and allowing the imposition of these systems on our people through force.
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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.
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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.
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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.
