Occupied Quotes

328 quotes by 289 authors

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. — Daniel Webster
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to… — Len Wein
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our… — James Wolcott
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,… — Virginia Woolf
And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited… — James M. Barrie
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at… — Cormac McCarthy
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that… — Douglas Adams
Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on. — Megan Whalen Turner
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible… — Mahatma Gandhi
Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and… — C.S. Lewis
What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but… — Haruki Murakami
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which… — Thomas Jefferson
I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at allâ€”steps to the refrigerator,… — Mary Karr
You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't… — Jerry Spinelli
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of… — Henry David Thoreau
What was said about him, what the females needed to believe about him, was just oral masturbation for mouths that needed to be otherwise occupied. — J R Ward
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,… — Thrity Umrigar
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms… — Larry Niven
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because… — George Bernard Shaw

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