Occupation Quotes - Page 9

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

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS.

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

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

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

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.

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

Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.

Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

Occupation alone is happiness.

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.