Quotes of: Occupational Keyword

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

Sam Brownback

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb

What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

Charles Dickens

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

August Strindberg

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

William Cowper

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

Noam Chomsky

One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam, they traditionally rank among the best organized a...

Graham Fuller

Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.

The First Salute

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Agnes Grey

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Loot

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

Giancarlo Esposito

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

Muqtada al Sadr

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

Noam Chomsky

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.

Jonathan Sacks

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Jonathan Zittrain

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.

Hayley Williams

[last lines] Recruiter: [after Johnnie has brought back The General] Occupation? Johnnie Gray: Soldier!

The General

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

Victor Mature