Quotes About Occupation

The sound of his boots Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It would pass. The occupation would end. There would be peace, blessed peace. The war and the tragedy of 1940 would be no more than a memory, a page in history, the names of battles and treaties children would recite in school, but as for me, for as long as I live, I will never forget the low, regular sound of those boots pacing across the floorboards.

dac? ar primi mâine ordin, m-ar aresta, m-ar ucide cu mâna lor È™i f?r? remuÈ™c?ri?... R?zboiul... Da, È™tim bine ce e r?zboiul. Dar ocupaÈ›ia e într-un fel mai cumplit?, pentru c? te obiÈ™nuieÈ™ti cu oamenii; îÈ›i zici c? la urma urmelor, sunt È™i ei ca toÈ›i ceilalÈ›i, dar nu-i deloc adev?rat. Suntem dou? specii diferite, care nu se pot împ?ca vreodat?, inamice pe via??.

All in all, it's only the initial shock that counts. People get used to everything, everything that happens in the occupied zone:

War Ã¢â'¬Â¦ yes, everyone knows what war is like. But occupation is more terrible in a way, because people get used to one another. We tell ourselves, 'They're just like us, after all,' but they're not at all the same. We're two different species, irreconcilable, enemies forever.

Weary of fire, weary of bombardment, and weary of siege, scattered groups of Chinese actually rushed out to welcome the Japanese invaders as they thundered into the city with their tanks, artillery, and trucks. Some people hung Japanese flags from their windows while others even cheered the Japanese columns as they marched through the south and west gates of the city.

thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you.

Bereavement is my occupation and it absorbs me completely. You want me to touch you, to look at you with sympathy. I cannot.

Living like this is a full-time business.

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.

It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

She realized he looked more at home sitting at her desk than she did. How did he manage it? Somehow, he found a way to mark whatever space he occupied. He might as well lift his leg when he walked into a room.

It was as if rather than being there in that moment, I was somewhere else, wishing I could be there. . . . The strange reverse-nostalgia itched at me every time I stepped from the boat to the stilt house dock, and it was several minutes before I could slough it off and relax. I think as much as anything else it was a weighty sense of gratitude, as well as the foreknowledge that whatever this was--this occupation, this friendship, this parallel life--it would not last forever.

My mother buries herself in her work. Having no work,grief buries me.

I studied the man in front of me. It was hard to see beyond the uniform and not see the German soldier, part of the occupying force, but if I looked closer there was a man, a person, someone with compassion and empathy standing there