Occupation Quotes - Page 35

• Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Phases, Painting

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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• One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

  Jacques de Lacretelle

  Men, Divine, Principal

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• Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Quests, May, Spirit

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• I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  School, Thinking, Careers

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• Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Desire, Wicked, Deeds

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Annales, XXX. 9, 1922.

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• It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

  Ossie Davis

  Busy, Lifetime, Asks

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• Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance

  Farouk of Egypt

  Roots, Levels, Resistance

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• The people have said yes to change and reform. The majority of the Palestinians have said yes to the slogan, 'Islam is the solution.' The people also voted in favor of our policy of resistance and against the occupation. Our policy is designed to defend Jerusalem, achieve the right of return for all refugees and the release of our prisoners.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  People, Islam, Majority

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Summer, Mother, Hurt

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• The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

  Robert Frost

  Motivational, Jobs, Careers

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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?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Wind, Ideas

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• Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

  J. C. Ryle

  Blessing, Hymns, People

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