Occupation Quotes
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.
You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.
For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.
Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance
Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.
We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.