Occupied Quotes

328 quotes by 289 authors

Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse,… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to… — Nat Turner
There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum numbers… — Wolfgang Pauli
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. — Edwidge Danticat
The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military — Nnimmo Bassey
The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several… — Cesar Pelli
The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of… — Leo Tolstoy
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the… — Charles Lamb
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. — Bernard Berenson
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic… — Karl Abraham
It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent… — Jonathan Raban
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south… — Nelson A. Miles
This mental space is occupied and everything is mine. — Leonard Cohen
The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces. — Yitzhak Rabin
I do keep pre-occupied. — Heath Ledger
I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his… — George Saunders
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally… — Howard Staunton

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