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Occupied people are not unhappy people. -- Orville Dewey
Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls -- Margaret Thatcher
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. -- Alice Walker
Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old Belgian woman who created an escape route out of Nazi-Occupied France, I was hooked. -- Megan Chance
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. -- Desmond Tutu
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. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don't want them. -- Noam Chomsky
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them. -- Noam Chomsky
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. -- Thomas Aquinas
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. -- Arnold H. Glasow
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. -- St. Jerome
I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. -- Arthur Miller
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. -- Arnold H. Glasow
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. -- Blaise Pascal
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. -- Nikola Tesla
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. -- W. C. Fields
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. -- John James Audubon
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. -- George Bernard Shaw
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. -- Hassan Nasrallah
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. -- Christopher Morley
But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested. -- Arthur Cayley
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. -- Nelson Mandela
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 is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. -- Heinrich Schliemann
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on. -- Henri Nouwen
Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car. -- Hugh Laurie
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. -- John Maynard Keynes
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 which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed. -- Nat Turner
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. -- Barack Obama
I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence. -- Dylan Moran
I do keep pre-occupied. -- Heath Ledger
I like to feel occupied. -- Pierre Dukan
Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory. -- Ralph Nader
Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory. -- Pat Buchanan
God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself. -- Meister Eckhart
I get very antsy when I'm not occupied. -- Lawrence Wright
Enemy occupied territory is what the world is. -- C. S. Lewis
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. -- Walter Savage Landor
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit. -- Norm MacDonald
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. -- Harriet Martineau
Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is. -- C. S. Lewis
This mental space is occupied and everything is mine. -- Leonard Cohen
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast. -- Laozi
Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend. -- Natalie Portman
Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health. -- Gail Porter
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. -- John Ralston Saul
The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher. -- Kedar Joshi
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition. -- Dan Davis
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. -- John Ruskin
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I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment. -- Peter Morgan
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. -- Mother Teresa
I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity. -- Zhuangzi
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. -- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present. -- Laini Taylor
I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband / baby thing. Besides I have a dog. -- Calista Flockhart
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied. -- Jack McDevitt
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear. -- Carlos Slim
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to. -- Golda Meir
The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? -- Hassan Nasrallah
The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied. -- Alice Bag
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement? -- Edward Said
Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus. -- Alexis Tsipras
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. -- John Amery
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. -- Ian Mcewan
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Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. -- Rumi
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. -- Edwidge Danticat
My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch. -- Debi Mazar
The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself. -- Charles Henry Mackintosh
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. -- Jalal Talabani
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day. -- Ursula Curtiss
A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. -- Arlen Specter
In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens. -- Benito Mussolini
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. -- Daniel Webster
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. -- Arthur C. Clarke
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. -- Dorothee Solle
Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self. -- Andy Murray
The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation. -- Robert H. Jackson
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. -- Horace
I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else. -- John Paul Warren
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. -- Herodotus
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom. -- Remi Kanazi
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. -- Victor Hugo
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. -- Johannes Stark
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. -- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases. -- Ben Bernanke
If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease -- Dalai Lama
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. -- Westbrook Pegler
Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated. -- Joseph Goebbels
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects. -- Thomas Hardy
The more I keep myself occupied and jump from thing to thing, the more I think it enriches both. -- Fred Armisen
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. -- John James Audubon
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. -- Rhona Mitra
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. -- John le Carre
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath. -- Gaston Bachelard
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. -- Jose Saramago
I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods. Perfect, it will keep him occupied. In what capacity? Bait. -- Ilona Andrews
The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military -- Nnimmo Bassey
I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly. -- Anthony Hopkins
If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. -- Sun Tzu
As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well. -- George Habash
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. -- Isaac Mizrahi
UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons. -- Dave Barry
It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss. -- Frank Woolley
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. -- Thom Mayne
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. -- Jonathan Swift

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