Occupation Quotes
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
Vita Sackville-West
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Occupation is the scythe of time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.
Segolene Royal
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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
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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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The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.
Ed Garvey
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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
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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
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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.
Hanan Ashrawi
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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
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Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
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The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.
Ismail Haniyeh
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Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
Edouard Boubat
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Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative.
Eliot Wigginton
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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.
James Boswell
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The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
Alonzo King
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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.
Amr Moussa
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To endow clock time with numinous meaning is hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
Alan McGlashan
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
Wole Soyinka
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Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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The occupation is a source of violence that has to stop.
Hanan Ashrawi
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
Cesare Pavese