Occupied Quotes

328 quotes by 289 authors

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. — Oscar Wilde
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body… — Tad Williams
Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the… — Paul Murray
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied. — David Foster Wallace
The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to… — Cinda Williams Chima
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed. — Sue Grafton
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to… — Tahir Shah
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. — Michael Ondaatje
Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple… — Rick Riordan
Bluetooth earpieces are so geeky," Dan Cahill said. "But they free up your hands for surfing the web, stealing priceless jewels, and eating pastry," Atticus… — Roland Smith
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they… — Aristotle
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space… — Maya Banks
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for… — Mother Teresa
Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present. — Laini Taylor
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. — Harriet Martineau
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. — Walter Savage Landor
I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving… — Martin Luther

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