The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

“Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people.”

— Ari Shavit

I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think…

— Richard Engel

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

— Paul Bremer

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

— Janet Frame

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the…

— Noam Chomsky

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

— Gertrude Stein

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

— Alison Moyet

I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live…

— Heber J. Grant

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is…

— Sarah Vowell

We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how…

— Aslan Maskhadov

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

— Gertrude Stein

Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements.

— Ahmed Yassin

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly…

— Michael Moore

There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

— King Felipe VI

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

— Jon Lee Anderson