Occupation Quotes - Page 3

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

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

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.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

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.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

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

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.

We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.

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.

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.

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.

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

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