Occupation Quotes

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. View quote
George Soros
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. View quote
William Cowper
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians. View quote
Ariel Sharon
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
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)
It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. View quote
Anne Tyler
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. View quote
Oscar Wilde
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes - with the exception of their occupation. View quote
Karl Kraus
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. View quote
Manuel Puig
From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories. View quote
Stephane Hessel
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. View quote
Queen Christina
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. (Martha Gellhorn)
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Why I should be in Romania in the name of unknown to me goal. There was a time when I led soldiers to battle, thinking I was doing my duty as a Russian patriot. However, I understood that we have been cheated, that people needed peace. The old army and Soviet Union are not compatible, therefore, my military career had to end. With no remorse, I could go back to my favorite occupation, working in the field. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky