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We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we don't actually see the very hard work that goes to build confidence towards those events. And we don't have a shared discussion. -- Vijay Prashad
A first love always occupies a special place. -- Lee Konitz
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. -- Anish Kapoor
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. -- Elias Canetti
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. -- Kim Jong Il
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. -- Anthony Kiedis
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. -- Swami Vivekananda
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right? -- Marissa Mayer
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. -- Marshall McLuhan
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. -- Francois Mauriac
Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space. -- Orson Pratt
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. -- Chuck Close
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. -- David Lynch
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. -- Bo Bennett
For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no. -- Roger Waters
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy. -- Cynthia McKinney
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. -- Susan Sontag
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture. -- Preston Manning
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. -- Tony Snow
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. -- Tim Jackson
Artillery conquers and infantry occupies. -- J. F. C. Fuller
Part of Creator occupies outer part of universe. -- Toba Beta
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. -- Epicurus
[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy. -- Jose Maria Aznar
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. -- John Lancaster Spalding
The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. -- Charles Tupper
Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over. -- Paul Virilio
The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film. -- Lewis Baltz
Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite. -- Swami Vivekananda
The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you -- Winston Churchill
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder. -- Karl Marx
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. -- Joseph Stalin
Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life. -- Maria Edgeworth
Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth. -- Paul Billheimer
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature. -- Ernst Mayr
England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there. -- Bob Hope
To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place. -- Edmond Jabes
Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion. -- Horace Mann
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books]. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present. -- Erica Jong
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. -- John Kennedy Toole
In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position. -- Arthur Eddington
The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes. -- Napoleon Hill
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them. -- William Hazlitt
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master. -- Florence Nightingale
People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st. -- Carl Sagan
The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms. -- Harold Innis
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become. -- John Ortberg
Quitting a job can be like an exorcism where you cast out a demon. The demon is the foreign spirit who occupies you through your occupation. -- Bryant McGill
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. -- Ernest Legouve
it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. -- Charles Dickens
I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. -- James Joyce
We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians. -- Charles Spurgeon
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. -- Tomas Transtromer
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing -- Bo
In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made. -- Solomon Caesar Malan
If a cloud occupies your mind, you are perplexed. The strategy to clear the cloud from your head is to enhance your weak areas that pertains to education. -- Saaif Alam
Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all. -- DJ Spooky
Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues. -- Talaat Pasha
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history. -- Ludwig von Mises
Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu. -- George Bernard Shaw
People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual. -- David Greenberg
Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu. -- George Bernard Shaw
True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. -- Victor Hugo
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis -- Henry Mayhew
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. -- Henry Mayhew
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. -- Victor Hugo
Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy. -- Auguste Comte
There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy. -- Richard Phillips
If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual. -- Harry Benjamin
The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk. -- Orson Pratt
The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk -- Orson Pratt
Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts. -- Stephen Holden
A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband. -- Swami Vivekananda
Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time. -- Bill Gates
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority. -- Bruce Barton
Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"? -- Sylvia Plath
If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless. -- Aristotle
When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope. -- Giacomo Casanova
Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness. -- Gustave Flaubert

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