Occupation Quotes

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

End, Situation, Security

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
Arabella Weir

Time, Father, Living

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Bashar al-Assad

Why, Ways, Clear

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Bashar al-Assad

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Angelina Grimke

Trust, Time, Children

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

Acting, Quite, Adult

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
Hassan Nasrallah

Others, Opinion, State

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Ernst Mach

Moment, Fact, Point

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
Giancarlo Esposito

Character, Done, Working

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps

Money, Possible, Choose

Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley

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

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
Penelope Lively

Character, Fictional, Firmly

Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
Bill James

Baseball, Place, Team

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

Government, German, Carried

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.
Scott Ritter

History, Government, American

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
Richard Powers

Time, Great, Writer

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
Simon Newcomb

Life, Teacher, School

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
Danny Glover

Hope, War, Find

I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.
Sarah Wayne Callies

Food, Learning, Thought

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
Marcus V. Pollio

May, Understand, Few

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Ted Rall

Peace, Country, Keep

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
Joichi Ito

History, Focus, Democracy

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
Sam Brownback

Time, Government, Stop

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.
Mohammed Omar

Blessed, Struggle, Forget

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
Mahmoud Abbas

Vision, State, President

Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
Mahmoud Abbas

Action, Whether, Military

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
Mahmoud Abbas

Rather, Stand, Aim

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Ramman Kenoun

Nation, Illusion, Oppression

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

Human, Become, She

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