Quotes About Occupation

The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Look. Let's just say he's in Tabitha's line of work. Okay? (Selena) Ladies' lingerie? He hardly looks the type to sell that. (Sunshine)

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

Auschwitz was unusual, however, in one important respect. Unlike the death pits in the doubly occupied zone and the occupied Soviet Union, unlike the death facilities at Be??ec, Sobibór, Treblinka, and Che?mno, it was the planned murder site for very large numbers of Jews who were still citizens of states that Germany recognized as sovereign.

I do miss home, especially my parents, but my work keeps me occupied most of the time.

What's been good for the downtime is I got a dog. A little black lab. I've been training her, so she's kept me occupied.

I was brought up in Jamaica when people had to occupy themselves and entertain each other.

I have a really good at-home support system with my wife and the baby and even the dogs in that they all just keep me occupied, they keep me busy, they keep me moving, to keep my mind from drifting.

I think it just seems like something that somebody else does, like they raise actors somewhere in Ohio, and once in a while, people go and pick their actors and move to Hollywood. It seemed like such a distant idea. But then, as I started growing up, I'm like, 'Oh, this is an occupation.'

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

Do you smoke? Jack.  Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell.  I am glad to hear it.  A man should always have an occupation of some kind.  There are far too many idle men in London as it is. 

Do you smoke? Jack.  Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell.  I am glad to hear it.  A man should always have an occupation of some kind.