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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. -- Frederick Sanger
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. -- Victoria Woodhull
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. -- Iain Duncan Smith
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. -- Henry David Thoreau
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. -- George Lucas
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. -- Bernard Cornwell
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us. -- Katharine Graham
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love. -- Alphonsus Liguori
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. -- William Falconer
For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. -- Charles E. Wilson
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. -- Boris Spassky
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
The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. -- Ellsworth Huntington
When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick. -- Tia Mowry
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
I am always the first to say that fame and entertainment is one of the best and easiest occupations to ever have, but one must know how to navigate through the matrix or you may find yourself in a very dark hole. -- Nick Cannon
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
Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide. -- Vladimir Bukovsky
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. -- Laura Riding
I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person. -- Billy Campbell
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. -- Jules Massenet
To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations. -- Alexander Borodin
One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman. -- Jacques de Lacretelle
Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. -- Laurence Sterne
One of my favorite occupations is making radio/video edits. I love singles. -- Justus Kohncke
Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers. -- Yaroslav Trofimov
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man. -- Dorothy Dix
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? -- Khalil Gibran
[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts. -- Vita Sackville-West
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life. -- Marcus Aurelius
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. -- Voltaire
To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations. -- Louis J. Halle
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced. -- Michel de Montaigne
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. -- David Hume
Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality. -- Elizabeth McCracken
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
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
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
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. -- George Santayana
Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary. -- Nathan Myhrvold
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We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here? -- Mairead Corrigan
There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office. -- Barack Obama
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
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. -- John McCarthy
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often. -- Diana Gabaldon
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations. -- Queen Victoria
I think people of all occupations, whether it's the camera - puller or the man who's doing the catering, they can identify with Rambo's frustrations, with the veteran's frustrations. -- Sylvester Stallone
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled. -- Robert Rainy
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations. -- James Madison
To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting. -- Thomas Jefferson
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor. -- George Bernard Shaw
Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations. -- Edgar Pangborn
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged. -- David Lee Roth
If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient. -- Ignatius of Loyola
The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations. -- Sandra Cisneros
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations. -- Benjamin Spock
Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart. -- Dick Armey
One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations. -- Timothy Noah
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin. -- Frederick William Robertson
Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good -- Plutarch
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Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives. -- James Cook

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