Occupying Quotes
77 Occupying quotes by 71 unique authors
-
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People…
— Hassan Nasrallah
-
I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
— Sarah Palin
-
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
-
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
— Zadie Smith
-
We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature.…
— David Suzuki
-
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched…
— Graham Greene
-
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a…
— Toni Morrison
-
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
-
He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
— Michael Ondaatje
-
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe…
— Erin McKean
-
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.
— Janet Frame
-
In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the…
— Jane Leavy
-
From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants…
— Noam Chomsky
-
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied…
— Noam Chomsky
-
I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it…
— Heber J. Grant
-
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the…
— Michael Leunig
-
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by…
— Jan Hus
-
There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
— King Felipe VI
-
We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult…
— Aslan Maskhadov
-
I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
— Alison Moyet
-
Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements.
— Ahmed Yassin
-
The worst and the best things have the tendency of occupying the same positions in our minds, so incline your hearts to the best things.
— Terry Mark
-
TRUE LEADERS THAT HAVE EVER EMERGED IN HUMAN HISTORY ARE TRAINED/MADE THROUGH A CERTIFIED PROCESS,THEY ARE NOT PRODUCT OF CHANCE AND ARE OFTEN PROVED. THEREFORE…
— WINNER C O
-
Occupying ourselves with what doesn't concern us will make us unable to deal with our own matters appropriately.
— Mufti Ismail Menk
Who Wrote These Occupying Quotes
71 authors contributed a total of 77 Occupying Quotes, led by these top contributors: