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Absence of occupation is not rest.
— William Cowper
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
— Nick Cave
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
— Angelina Grimke
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
— Viggo Mortensen
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
— Alberto Manguel
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
— H.L. Mencken
This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.
— Franz Wright
When I first was able to fill in A-C-T-O-R for the occupation line on my passport, that was the first time I really felt, 'Wow, I'm home.'
— Brendan Gleeson
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
— Queen Christina
Existing is occupation enough. — Andre Gide
The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.
— Gerard Debreu
The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
— P.T. Barnum
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
— Vladimir Lenin
We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.
— Khaled Mashal
When love is true there is no truer occupation.
— Gordon Lightfoot
But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.
— John Abizaid
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.
— Margaret Mead
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.
— John Mortimer Smith
activities, especially considering the occupation of
— Lynn Florkiewicz
such as mating, childbearing, and establishing an occupation, lead to confusion, emptiness, and psychological distress.
— Louis Cozolino
When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.
— Rudy Ruettiger
Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.
— William Wilberforce
The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.
— Ismail Haniyeh
Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.
— Thomas Jefferson
No occupation should be considered superior.
— Sunday Adelaja
It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not
— Ossie Davis
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
When you're sixteen a body like this is free; when you're forty it's a full-time occupation.
— Junot Diaz
When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.
— Lu Yen-hsun
Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.
— Julianne MacLean
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
— John Burroughs
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
— Zendaya
If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation ...
— Herbie Brennan
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
— Simon Newcomb
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
— Gertrude Atherton
Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.
— Khaled Mashal
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
— William Osler
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
— Alonzo King
He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.
— Leo Tolstoy
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
— Maria Montessori
A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as rewarding.
— Mason Cooley
Praise is the highest occupation of any being
— Max Lucado
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The overarching goal of occupation therapy is simple: Help patients live life to the fullest.
— Holly Goodman
The human mind ever longs for occupation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
— Anne Sexton
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.
— Fritz Leiber
I've heard of a dozen prophets over the years. It's not an uncommon occupation.
— Emily St. John Mandel
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
— Muqtada Al Sadr
Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.
— Sara Sheridan
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.
— Robin Roberts
We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.
— Khaled Mashal
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
— Oscar Wilde
You can't have occupation and human rights.
— Christopher Hitchens
Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.
— Frances J Roberts
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
— Leigh Hunt
TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.
— Raymond Arroyo
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.
— Marcus Aurelius
Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.
— Roald Hoffmann
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
— Germaine Greer
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
— Simone De Beauvoir
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
— Arabella Weir
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.
— Theodore Kaczynski
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
— Bashar Al-Assad
Politics, these days, is no occupationfor an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better. — Aristophanes
I really never cared about any occupation or stream. I just wanted to be an eminent personality.
— Bharat Budhani
The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.
— Geena Davis
Ballin's not a hobby, it's my occupation
— Wiz Khalifa
There is no way forward without ending the occupation.
— Jean Parker
Never were we freer than under the German Occupation.
— Jean-Paul Sartre