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Quotes About Occupation

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
~ Alice Hamilton
Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition.
~ Michael Korda
I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living.
~ William Gibson
There's something Vichy about the French.
~ Ivor Novello
I have always had a full-time job. I have always worked full time.
~ Arlene Phillips
being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
~ Ford Madox Ford
Although Tietjens hated golf as he hated any occupation that was of a competitive nature, he could engross himself in the mathematics of trajectories when
~ Ford Madox Ford
Probably I am constitutionally not lazy at all, but there was nothing for me to do.
~ Franz Kafka
In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?'
~ Simon Helberg
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
~ John Burroughs
Islam later provided the most persuasive and effective ideological foundation to rally Libyan opposition to continued Italian occupation
~ Ronald Bruce St. John
Eu gosto de ver impressas as notícias particulares, é bom uso, faz da vida de cada um ocupação de todos. Já as tenho visto assim, e não só impressas, mas até gravadas. Tempo há de vir em que a fotografia entrará no quarto dos moribundos para lhes fixar os últimos instantes; e se ocorrer maior intimidade entrará também.
~ Machado de Assis
Existing is occupation enough.
~ Andre Gide
A soul filled with large thoughts of the Vine will be a strong branch, and will abide confidently in Him. Be much occupied with Jesus, and believe much in Him, as the True Vine.
~ Andrew Murray
Not to be occupied with thy sin, but to be occupied with God, brings deliverance from self. IX. Humility
~ Andrew Murray
Would you allow other people to be masters in the home you dwell in? You never would. And yet, alas! you allow so much else to occupy the heart and have the place God alone is meant to have.
~ Andrew Murray
Strangely, though, in the midst of occupation and the utter failure of the Arab regimes, a sense of freedom was emerging: a notion that the Palestinians were suddenly free to think and act for themselves. In the weeks after the occupation, Bashir began to believe that his people would go back to their homeland only through the sweat and blood of Palestinian armed struggle. He was far from alone in this assessment.
~ Sandy Tolan
For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.
~ Santa Teresa de Jesús
The secret of happiness is something to do
~ John Burroughs
beard, his profile peculiarly flattened, as though there were not quite enough of him to fully occupy three dimensions.
~ John Connolly
The psychologist, in his most remote and technical occupation with mechanism, is contributing his bit to that ordered knowledge which alone enables mankind to secure a larger and to direct a more equal flow of values in life.
~ John Dewey
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
~ Mary McCarthy
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.
~ Kim Gandy
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
~ Thomas Nagel