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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. - Sinclair Lewis

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. Sinclair Lewis

Winter, Nature, Season

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

Life, Good, Happiness, Freedom, Health

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. Rutherford B. Hayes

Nature, Soul, Human Nature, My Soul, Say

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell

Listening, You, Observation, Will, Talk

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors. Cindy Sheehan

Peace, Food, Water, People, Saying

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson

Happiness, Wealth, You, Give, Splendor

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation. Eleanor Roosevelt

Family, Mother, Look, Planning, Her

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Nazim Hikmet

Live, Great, Looking, Living, You, Mean

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' Rand Paul

Good, Good Night, Night, Islam, Fans

The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security instruments were likely to achieve the necessary goal, which was the reversal of Saddam Hussein's invasion and occupation of Kuwait. Richard N. Haass

War, Achieve, Goal, First, Necessity

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, Gardening, Me, Garden, Earth

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories. Michael Pollan

Best, City, Society, Better, America

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. Martha Gellhorn

Opinion, Tough, Stand, Citizenship, Own

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. Jonathan Sacks

Business, Football, Manager, Bus, Head

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. George Soros

War, Power, Done, Military, Project, Our

I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring. Ice T

Life, Art, Yourself, Me, My Life, You

I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation, but it's also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing. Dichen Lachman

Lonely, Tough, Motivation, Acting, Find

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Struggle, Wife, Ambition, Hunting

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human. Rosa Parks

Life, Home, Man, People, You, Comfort

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation. Emile Galle

Purpose, Thoughts, Doubt, Wood, Way

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. George Bernard Shaw

Happy, You, Miserable, Leisure, Being

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine. Hassan Nasrallah

Perspective, World, Blame, Reality, Real

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. Rumi

God, Attention, Envy, You, Will, May

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. Henri Nouwen

Identity, Society, Busy, Security, Way

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics, Men, True, Be True, Fault

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man, Forever, Only, Businessman, Who

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