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What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright... Haven’t you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you’ve had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? (Occupation Quotes)
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate (Occupation Quotes)
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness (Occupation Quotes)
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity (Occupation Quotes)
Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families (Occupation Quotes)
I’d always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. and so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one (Occupation Quotes)
I’d like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I’m doing. That’s one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation (Occupation Quotes)
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation (Occupation Quotes)
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting (Occupation Quotes)
It is necessary to try to pass one’s self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life (Occupation Quotes)
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights (Occupation Quotes)
An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign (Occupation Quotes)
I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged (Occupation Quotes)
The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression (Occupation Quotes)
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others (Occupation Quotes)
It’s true that it’s a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them (Occupation Quotes)
Reading isn’t an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paper work down to a minimum (Occupation Quotes)
Here, in the country, my books are my sole occupation; books my sure solace, and refuge from frivolous cares. Books the calmers, as well as the instruction of the mind (Occupation Quotes)
Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds (Occupation Quotes)
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin, occupation (Occupation Quotes)
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world (Occupation Quotes)
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight (Occupation Quotes)
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone (Occupation Quotes)
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind (Occupation Quotes)
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man (Occupation Quotes)
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy (Occupation Quotes)
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one (Occupation Quotes)
If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don’t ask why, or what difficulties you may get into (Occupation Quotes)
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 (Occupation Quotes)
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win (Occupation Quotes)