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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Occupation'

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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Statesman (1935-  )
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
Ralph Allen, British Politician
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
Jon Lee Anderson, -
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician (1939-  )
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier (1857-1941)
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, Algerian Politician (1918-  )
Life: my favorite occupation.
Dirk Benedict, American Actor (1945-  )
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
Earl Blumenauer, American Politician (1948-  )
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, American Journalist (1927-1996)
Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher (1846-1924)
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
Alan Brien, English Novelist
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
Louise Brooks, American Actress (1906-1985)
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
Sam Brownback, American Politician (1956-  )
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs, American Author (1837-1921)
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote, American Novelist (1924-1984)
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
Nancy Chodorow, -
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina, Swedish Royalty
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee, South African Author (1940-  )
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist (1873-  )
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