Occupied Quotes

328 quotes by 301 authors

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. — John James Audubon
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied… — David Bailey
Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal'… — Roseanne Barr
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. — Barbara Bush
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. — John le Carre
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. — Thomas Aquinas
The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that from the time… — Guglielmo Marconi
female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them… — Thomas Jefferson
If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. — Sun Tzu
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding… — Soren Kierkegaard
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very… — Rex Harrison
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. — Louis Kronenberger
First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can… — Mortimer Adler
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. — Rumi
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by… — Charles Lyell

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