Quotes About Occupation

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.

A imprensa argentina continuou a ridicularizar o Paraguai, e nenhuma ação foi tomada depois da chegada das notícias a respeito da ocupação das cidades Orientais pelos brasileiros, e falou-se que o Paraguai não iria sair do seu casulo.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Nothing goes unobserved in that strict town where people lack occupation. Malicious curiosity there has even invented what is known as a busybody, that is a double mirror fixed to the outside of the windowledge so that the streets can be monitored even from inside the houses, all the comings and goings watched, a kind of trap to catch all the exits and entrances the encounters and gestures that do not realize they are being observed, the looks that prove everything.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

When men are rightfully occupied, then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.

End of the war would be when the Russian occupation troops leave Ukrainian territory and we close the uncontrolled part of the Russian-Ukrainian border.

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

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.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.