Quotes about occupation

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh - Blankets become Jackets

There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourcountry?

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh - Blankets become Jackets

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.

Anthony Eden -

... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.

Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

Sunday Adelaja -

You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal

Sunday Adelaja -

If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are

Teresa Nielsen Hayden -

Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Sunday Adelaja -

In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

How to earn a viable standard of living while giving vent to their desire to perform creative activities is the quintessential challenge for modern humans. Some people settle for jobs filled with drudgery and in their free time immerse themselves in hobbies that provide them with personal happiness. Other people prefer to find work that makes them happy, even if this occupation requires them to live a more modest standard of living. The greater their impulse is for curiosity and creativity, the

Suheir Hammad -

Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician.Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there.Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constan

Moutasem Algharati -

Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.!

Hermann Hesse -

An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led. The realization shook me profoundly, it was the fruit of this experience. I had often speculated with images of the future, dreamed of roles that I might be assigned, perhaps as poet or prophet or painter, or something similar. All that was futile. I did not exist to write poems, to preach or to paint, neither I nor anyone else. All of that was incidental.

Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone

If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Quitting a job can be like an exorcism where you cast out a demon. The demon is the foreign spirit who occupies you through your occupation.

dignity - invo

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

dignity - invo

DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is considered superior. Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

Sunday Adelaja -

No occupation is considered superior since everyone is doing his best where he is.

dignity - invo

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

Avinash Advani -

In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Actresses/Politician/Housewife/Model/Doctor and so on.

Dennis Prager - Think a Second Time

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

Michel de Montaigne -

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful the best occupations are the least forced.

Sir Francis Bacon -

I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.

Douglas Jerrold -

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Thomas King -

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

Joyce Rachelle -

When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.

Tara Sue Me - The Exhibitionist

You express yourself through written words. You’re a writer.

Gerald Morris - The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf

I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter.”“No one is just a woodcutter,” replied Terence.“A person's always more than his present occupation.

Natalya Vorobyova - Better to be able to love than to be loveable

On the stand, I asked the witness, “What's your occupation?”“Make-up artist.”“Objection!” I replied, “Lack of foundation.

Stella Adler - The Art of Acting

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

Sunday Adelaja -

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling

Martha Wells - The Gate of Gods

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.