Occupation Quotations | Page 3

In Scotland, writers to the signet, whose chief occupation lies in conducting litigations, are men whose natural qualities fit them for this duty.

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

If the method is noble - to liberate our land, to liberate our people from the Israeli deals, to reconstruct what is destroyed by Israel's long-standing occupation - at that time we can discuss.

I really believe Camp Casey will be given credit for ending the illegal occupation of Iraq.

I personally look at acting-at least for television-as an occupation for the mentally challenged. It's not a real job for real people who have any skill. I mean, they tell you what to say. They pick out all your clothes, and put your name on your chair in case you can't figure out where to sit.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

He sleeps and sleeps, and the days go by, ... I love him dearly and for ever, but this lack of drive in any direction is a bad augury for the future. I am willing and happy to look after him for the rest of my life, but he must do something. If only he would take up some occupation and stick to it. I know that he is unhappy inside but, alas, with his natural resilience these moments of self-revelation dissipate and on go the years, and he will be an elderly man who has achieved nothing at all.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil....

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

Another occupation might have been better.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.

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.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

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

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

I am passionately invested in the survival of Israel and everything Israel represents. But I am extremely critical of much of its policy. I believe that the occupation must end. And if it doesn't, it will end Israel. I'm not in favor of settlements.

Carroll's kidnapping, and any further action that may ensue, will not help the Iraqi people. Nor will it help the cause of those who express opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq, or those who are trying to showcase the suffering of the Iraqi people.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind...

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

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.

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

Praise is the highest occupation of any being

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

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.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

The main problem is the Zionist (Israeli) occupation and continuing aggression against our people.

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives - a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end. In this respect it is a melancholy occupation.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

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.

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around...

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

It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.

Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

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.

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

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.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

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.

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

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

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

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.

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

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

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

Ballin's not a hobby, it's my occupation

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.