Occupation Quotes - Page 9

• So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Holiday, Air

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

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• Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers' high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn't stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Taken, Winning

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Kind, Should

  "The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays".

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• Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.

  Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

  Men, Vocabulary, Twists

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• The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Joy

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

  Voltaire

  Order, Talking, Gossip

  Voltaire (1959). “Candide”

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• Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

  Joe Orton

  Work, Reading, Police

  Loot (1967) act 2

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• Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

  Joan Didion

  Opportunity, Self, Criticism

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Rain, Mean

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.289, Faber & Faber

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• Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

  Isabel Allende

  Fascination, Heroism, Ends

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• It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

  Peter Singer

  Home, Iraq, America

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• Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Taken, Iraq, Would Be

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• As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Military, Village, Problem

  "Throw Them Out With the Trash: Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.tomdispatch.com. October 23, 2011.

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• It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Laughter, Laughing, Trying

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.133, Regent College Publishing

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• I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

  Michael Franti

  Years, Gaza Strip, Iraq

  "On the Side of the Peacemakers". Interview with Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March 13, 2006.

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• To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Might, Certain, Idle

  "Gauss-Schumacher Briefwechsel". Book by Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1862.

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• 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

  Country, Artist, Thinking

  "Viggo Mortensen, King of The Road". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 23, 2009.

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• 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.

  Michael Moore

  Winning, Numbers, Enemy

  "All Hail Moore" by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2004.

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• Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

  George Lucas

  Film, Easy, Difficult

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  My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

  Cary Grant

  Life, Morning, Simple

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• We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

  William Hague

  Resolution, Libya, Force

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• Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about 40% of the male population.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Army, Israel, Numbers

  "1967: Our rights have to be recognised" by Ismail Haniyeh, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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• The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  War, People, Lists

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• The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Running, Children, Contemplative Life

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Random House

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• 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.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Believe, Umpires

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, August 11, 1890.

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