#occupation

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#loved #perfection #preoccupation #suffer

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #continuity #decorum #easy #explosion

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#heaven #highest #humblest #materials #occupation

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. ↗

— William James

#another #being #currents #dynamic #effective

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#books #completely #done #from time to time #help

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fortunes #founded #labor #land #large

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#else #freely #living #more #more than anything

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits. ↗

— Tim Russert

#better #cost #country #cuts #deficits

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. ↗

— Richard Russo

#best #comedy #comic #doing #easy

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#martyrdom #occupation #resisting #stop #until