Occupied Quotes

328 quotes by 289 authors

You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just… — John Lydon
I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money.… — Wynton Marsalis
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. — Arthur Miller
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by… — Christopher Morley
I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian… — Hassan Nasrallah
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the… — Henri Nouwen
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And… — Barack Obama
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. — Blaise Pascal
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. — Eleanor Roosevelt
In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both… — Salman Rushdie
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. — Jose Saramago
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. — George Bernard Shaw
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. — Arlen Specter
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. — Gertrude Stein
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. — Jonathan Swift
I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we… — Johannes Tauler
We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the… — Lewis Thomas
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the… — Desmond Tutu
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. — Alice Walker

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