Occupy Quotes

354 Occupy quotes by 301 unique authors

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may… — Mitt Romney
The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one… — Eliot Spitzer
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly… — Matt Taibbi
I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to… — Christopher Walken
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of… — Douglas Rushkoff
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force… — Douglas Rushkoff
Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government.… — Douglas Rushkoff
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place… — Marcel Proust
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,… — Thomas Jefferson
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but… — Marcel Proust
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts… — Thomas Mann
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as… — Carl Sagan
In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the… — Emily Post
It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were… — W G Sebald
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which… — Ivan Turgenev
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is… — Milan Kundera
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man… — James Lee Burke
God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was… — C.S. Lewis
Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you… — Italo Calvino
I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living. — Flora Rheta Schreiber
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall… — Stephen Dobyns
He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him. — Karen Marie Moning

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