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Quotes About Occupied

alegró de estar tan ocupado.
~ Ken Follett
I got up and let Pearl in. She dashed into the room, jumped on the bed, turned around about twelve times, and plumped down hard against Susan, in the spot that until recently had been occupied by me.
~ Robert B. Parker
You're not used to early mornings, are you?" He shook his head. "Early mornings were invented by the system to keep the people occupied. But not me. I'm on to them. They're not gonna catch me napping. Metaphorically, like. Obviously, they can catch me physically napping like, four or five times a day, but, metaphorically, I am so far beyond their reach.
~ Derek Landy
I've often made critical comments about settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and in east Jerusalem, and my position hasn't changed. At the same time, it's equally important to me that the two sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, work towards a durable peace settlement: that's to say a viable two-state solution.
~ Angela Merkel
I'm a practical actor and work keeps me occupied. It takes care of my bills, so there are many reasons for which I work.
~ Arbaaz Khan
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
~ St. Jerome
you become skilled at truculantly blaming others when something goes wrong, those others can be kept occupied with the necessity of being defensive. Certainly they will be too busy to hold the Complainer accountable for meeting their, or anyone else's, expectations.
~ Robert M. Bramson
Right now, Dinabai's face, and Om's, and mine are all occupied. Worrying about work and money, and where to sleep tonight. But that does not mean we are not sad. It may not show on the face, but it's sitting inside here.' He placed his hand over his heart. 'In here, there is limitless room – happiness, kindness, sorrow, anger, friendship
~ Rohinton Mistry
Each of which was no doubt occupied by a made man with a gun in his pocket and a spare in a drawer.
~ Lee Child
Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us.
~ Jim Urbanovich
Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.
~ Anonymous
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
~ Alice Walker
focus, I imagined. Only two of the chairs were occupied. Justin and Serene
~ Robin Hobb
practically occupied Fortaleza. The planes are flown inland." "To Teresina and his mines and plantations, I'll bet. He has bases there for them." Jim looked around. "What will happen now?
~ Louis L'Amour
Although the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Europeans to have formed one great desert. The Indians occupied without possessing it.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
may have been wont to meet the Master. And as such it was known to Judas, and thither he led the armed band, when they found the Upper Chamber no longer occupied by Jesus and His disciples.
~ Alfred Edersheim
We must note the curious fact that people are not content with what is simple to understand, but go straight for the more complex problems which they will perhaps never grasp. What is simple to grasp is quite usable and useful, and can keep us occupied for a whole lifetime if it satisfies and stimulates us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I always find something to keep me busy.
~ Amy Sedaris
The more occupied we are in the things of God, the more likely we priests are to forget what God is all about—and the more complacent we're likely to become. That's the story of Jesus. Who do you think got rid of Jesus? The priests—who else? The religious people. That's the terror of the Gospel, see?
~ Anthony de Mello
presently occupied by Cleopatra, who was busy packing her bags for a rapid exit to Egypt.
~ Anthony Everitt
But it's not so much a headache as possession, my head an occupied territory, and my normal self, a disenfranchised native populace, driven underground.
~ Andrew Levy
Let us never be afraid to be still before God; we shall then carry that stillness into our work; and when we go to church on Sunday, or to the prayer-meeting on week-days, it will be with the one desire that nothing may stand betwixt us and God, and that we may never be so occupied with hearing and listening as to forget the presence of God.
~ Andrew Murray
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 population.
~ Noam Chomsky