Quotes of: Occupants Keyword

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.

The Jewel

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

Tom Rath

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

Michael Moore

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

Nick Cave

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

Muqtada al Sadr

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

William H. Wharton

When I first was able to fill in A-C-T-O-R for the occupation line on my passport, that was the first time I really felt, 'Wow, I'm home.'

Brendan Gleeson

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

Hassan Nasrallah

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

Lee Kuan Yew

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.

A.N.L. Munby

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

Bernard Cornwell

I really never cared about any occupation or stream. I just wanted to be an eminent personality.

Life

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

Life

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Bobby Ghosh

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

John Burroughs

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it

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