Quotes About Occupation

The forward movement necessary to occupy enemy territory taxed the attacker's energies and resources, while the defender was able to use this time to prepare to receive the attacker.

as they are never more at home with their own hearts while so occupied. —Nathaniel

I am a writer and comparing things is part of my occupation. Over the years I've learned to compare almost anything to almost anything else. I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

but a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within.

We [women] certainly do not forget you [men] as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

lo agradable de una ocupación no es siempre prueba de su corrección.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

Why would anyone want to be God? he asked. It's a terrible occupation.

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour and unstable living. Often they're unable to say what their occupation is, because what they're doing now might be quite different from what they were doing three months ago.

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.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.