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

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

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

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

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

Life: my favorite occupation.

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.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

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.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

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.

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

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

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

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

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

We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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.

That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.

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.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

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.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation.

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.

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.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

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.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

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

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

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

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.