Occupation Quotes
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Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
William P. Perry -
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Ammianus Marcellinus
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It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not.
Ossie Davis -
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.
Gerald Morris -
From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
Stephane Hessel -
My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
Sarah Gadon -
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.
Hanan Ashrawi -
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
Honore de Balzac
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
Vita Sackville-West -
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Occupation is the scythe of time.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Ray Bradbury -
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.
George W. Casey, Jr. -
To endow clock time with numinous meaning is hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
Alan McGlashan
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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.
Muqtada al Sadr -
I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
When asked her occupation: Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.
Carrie Nation -
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
Eric Jerome Dickey -
What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him- if He is his All in all- then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ.
Arno C. Gaebelein -
The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
Alonzo King
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The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.
Ismail Haniyeh -
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.
Ahmad Sa'adat -
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.
Richard Feynman -
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.
Amira Hass