Quotes About Occupied

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Of course. I'm the vampire, right? Just keep Matthew occupied so Nurse Feratu can do her thing.

Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell.

Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell. (Compare Crates on Xenocrates.)

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.

No country sacrifices its men without reason, and certainly not in the interests of another, and England is no exception. The invasion, liberation and freedom will come someday; yet England, not the occupied territories, will choose the moment.

He saw millions of houses, viewed from an airplane, and every couchc in every tiny house was occupied by someone from yet another house. Everyone was shuffled around helter-skelter-Ben Joe on Shelley's couch, Gary on Ben Joe's couch, and God knew who was on Gary's couch.

Rikard nodded. Once Andras and the Raven's crew members left, he thought, he'd give them time to get clear. Then he and his men would head for the Stingray, moored against the quay in the inner harbor. Let Raven's crew do the fighting, he thought. They could keep the enemy occupied while Stingray slipped away.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

Katya turned from under her lapful of flowers and turned so she could lean forward mockingly to kiss the ring her mother wore on the hand not currently occupied by the sack of chickens.

The illusion that egoists will be pleased, or flattered, by interest taken in their habits persists throughout life; whereas, in fact, persons like Widmerpool, in complete subjection to the ego, are, by the nature of that infirmity, prevented from supposing that the minds of others could possibly be occupied by any subject far distant from the egoist's own affairs.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

I very much regret to tell you that our piglet will not be able to attend, as he made good his escape while we were otherwise occupied.

I'm a worker. I need to keep busy.

I paused finally and watched the trees for slashes of light, but saw none. As my heart settled and my ears became less occupied I listened and heard nothing but the thready pulse of the night. And I sensed that the hunt was over. I'd been prey and now I was not. Prey knows this. Prey knows when it has escaped.

Stolen from someone. Like they stole everything. Occupied. I was occupied. I disappeared.

Even Vacancy was crowded with her.

TV movie announced by USA Network also occupied Mary Kay's time and though she didn't

But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favorite employment.

I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied.

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice.

Only remnants of the European Jewish population remain in Germany, in the countries which Germany occupied, and in those which were her satellites or collaborators. Of the 9,600,000 Jews who lived in Nazi-dominated Europe, 60 percent are authoritatively estimated to have perished.

And the Punk God of the Straight Razor is currently occupied doing something very unpleasant on the Street of the Gods. It must be something especially upsetting, because some of the gods have come running out crying.