Occupation Quotes

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

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.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

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

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

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.

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.