#occupation

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#day #israel #let us #live #ministers

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. ↗

— Freda Adler

#another #controversies #era #find #knowledge

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. ↗

— Viola Davis

#because #becomes #done #failed #get

Another occupation might have been better. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#been #better #might #occupation

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

#authoritative #belongs #conception #could #days

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#aware #back #been #bit #connections

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. ↗

— Theodore Kaczynski

#inmate #jail #now #occupation #suppose

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#glorify #i #kingdom #major #memory

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#less #life #man #more #occupations

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#battle #battlefield #change #desire #hamas