#occupation

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#culture #delightful #earth #garden #me

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

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#being #human #human being #must #nuisance

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#analogous #bank #british #cease-fire #end

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

#been #costs #dinosaur #had #iraq

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#get #i #occupation #prime #used