Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.
To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.
Another occupation might have been better.
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U. S. troops are still in Europe. What for?
Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.
We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.
A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U. S. , France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation,. . . We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza Rice realizes sectarianism is not good for Iraq. All we want from them is fair and clean elections next month.
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
Absence of occupation is not rest.
It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.
Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.