Occupation Quotes

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

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.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.

I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good.

The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

My first occupation was to map the country.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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.

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.

LIFE: My favorite occupation.

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!