#occupation

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

#being #call #child #high-risk #home

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#being pregnant #hazard #occupational #pregnant #wife

I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don’t care a straw about, but somehow, I’ve not been able to begin.” “You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#money #motivation #occupations #attitude

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. ↗

— William Hague

#any #clear #forbids #forces #foreign

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#did #europeans #hamas #launch #list

Writing is a solitary occupation. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#solitary #solitary occupation #writing

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#caused #compensation #disease #had #illinois

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

— Theodore Kaczynski

#inmate #jail #now #occupation #suppose

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

#better #better ways #capital #choose #countries