It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes. — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
“Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.” — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of… — Carey McWilliams Copy Share Image
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Gaudium is what I dream of: to enjoy a lifelong pleasure. But being unable to accede to Gaudium, from which I am… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
