Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#occupation

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #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

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. ↗


— Bernard Cornwell


#better #course #day #days #easier

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ↗


— William Cowper


#distressed #mind #occupation #quite #rest

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

Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician. Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there. Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket attack from an M16. A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli prison: just a random arbitrary death. A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while you watch your family dying around you. Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water. And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine. ↗


— Suheir Hammad


#occupation #palestine #resistance #courage

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000. ↗


— Emile Lahoud


#after #anyone #commits #constitution #could

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. ↗


— Laurence Olivier


#adult #exhibitionism #form #masochistic #occupation

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. ↗


— John Olver


#bush #choice #civilian #conduct #cost

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. ↗


— Gerard Debreu


#dark #exerted #german #occupation #outside






back to top