Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Search Results For `Occupation`

You can always add more terms to your search to narrow down your results.

Quotes Which Include `Occupation`

dolomites mountains italy alpine
Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.


Wole Soyinka
denmark north sea clouds beach sea
Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.


Roald Hoffmann
Tags: Our Part Russian
vilsalpsee allgäu bergsee lake
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.


William Cowper
Tags: Mind Quite Rest
ramsau hintersee alpine nature
The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.


Peter Coyote
Tags: About Being Thing
sunset bikes boat nature landscape
The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.


Segolene Royal
Tags: Who World Only
misurina dolomites landscape
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.


Zendaya
Tags: Think Been I Can
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.
James Avery
Tags: Work You Writing
boat beach sea water nature ship
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.


Queen Christina
Tags: Always Life Long
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Angelina Grimke
Tags: Time Trust Will
Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
Sander Levin
Tags: Women Men Like
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
Tags: Men Your Them
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 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
I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.
Sarah Hall
Tags: Who Out Really
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote
Tags: You Just Because
If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.
Joe Gibbs
Tags: God Family Life
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.
Manuel Puig
I do not think we can dismiss the contribution that people make, particularly when it is a very dangerous occupation to be involved in building support for the peace process.
Martin McGuinness
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Tags: More Life Than
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.
Graydon Carter
Tags: Than Could Did
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
Rumi
Tags: God You Your
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.
Christopher Heyerdahl
Tags: War People Who
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.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Tags: Men Who Other
I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Tags: War More Very
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.
William Morris Hunt
Tags: Time Work Respect
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.
William Hague
Tags: About Any Part
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
Earl Blumenauer
Tags: Time War Our
I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.
Sarah Wayne Callies
Tags: Food Learning You
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
Henry Rollins
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
Joichi Ito
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.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Tags: Nature Will Say
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Ted Rall
Tags: Peace Who Say
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.
George Soros
Tags: Power War Our
I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
Ice T
Tags: You Me Just
I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.
Pierre Boulez
Tags: Time Work War
I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
Yossi Sarid
Tags: Just More World
Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.
Gene Luen Yang
Tags: War Had Were
You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
Rosa Parks
Tags: Home You People