Occupied Quotes

328 quotes by 300 authors

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the… — Sheldon Vanauken
I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a… — Erma Bombeck
Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of… — David Bronstein
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better] — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny. — Winston Churchill
God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work… — Elif Safak
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity… — John Cowper Powys
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to… — Len Wein
Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. — Jalal Talabani
In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient… — Alfred Jodl
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim… — Heinrich Schliemann
The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied. — Alice Bag
In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce.… — Noam Chomsky
The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ,… — Theodore Austin-Sparks
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw.… — Alexander Hamilton
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy… — J D Salinger
The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre. — Vasily Smyslov
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. — Rhona Mitra
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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