Occupation Quotes - Page 8

• It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who is not doing everything in their power to end this illegal and immoral occupation as quickly as possible is complicit with the war crimes being committed in Iraq on a daily basis.

  Dahr Jamail

  War, Iraq, People

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• They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.

  Tom Wolfe

  Beautiful, Games, People

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.155, Macmillan

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• My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Hazards, Occupational Hazards

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• Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, May, Dignity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

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• You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.

  Lionel Shriver

  Morning, Heart, People

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Past, Years, Desire

  George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Giving, Culture

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.349, University of Chicago Press

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• Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

  Richard Powers

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Change, Land, Desire

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• The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

  Hayley Williams

  Want, Matter, Truth Is

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• It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.

  George Whitefield

  Book, Light, Generations

  George Whitefield, Samuel Dres, Joseph Smith (1841). “Sermons on important subjects”, p.245

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• 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

  Father, Long, Childhood

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• In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Society, Afternoon

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Doctors, Practice

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Men, Experience

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• 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.

  George Soros

  War, Military, Iraq

  Speech at the National Press Club, October 28, 2004.

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• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Jobs, Lows, Proportion

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Blessed, Excellence, Crafts

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• He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Pride, Fishing

  "Anna Karenina".

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• Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Thinking, Judging, Humanity

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• Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Exercise, Scary

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sleep, Charming, Ifs

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Firsts

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• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Kindness, Men

  "Mein Weltbild". Book by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Country, Winning, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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