Occupation Quotes
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My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."
Harrison Ford -
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Ammianus Marcellinus
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
Vita Sackville-West -
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 -
Occupation is the scythe of time.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
William P. Perry -
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
Sarah Gadon
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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.
George W. Casey, Jr. -
From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
Stephane Hessel -
To endow clock time with numinous meaning is hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
Alan McGlashan -
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Ray Bradbury -
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
Honore de Balzac -
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
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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.
Edgar Pangborn -
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 -
The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.
Ismail Haniyeh -
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 -
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 -
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
Eleanor Rathbone
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I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
A time for every occupation under heaven. A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted; a time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing; a time for searching, a time for losing; a time for loving, a time for hating.
Ben Sherwood -
The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. 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.
Henry Louis Gates -
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.
Blaise Pascal