Occupation Quotes - Page 6

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

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.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

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

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

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

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

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

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

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

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

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.

Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

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

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

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.

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good