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Quotes About Occupy

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.
~ Pablo Neruda
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. ...But my words become stained with your love. You occupy everything, you occupy everything.
~ Pablo Neruda
To understand life, and love it to its depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece; and each of us can hardly occupy his time so greatly as with one other; we have only one true neighbor down here.
~ Henri Barbusse
I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.
~ Jeremy Piven
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
~ Peter M. Brant
Time hangs heavy in the hospital, and the best I can say for Group Therapy is that it was a way to occupy the hours. More
~ William Styron
But the winter king, less occupied, will begin to think about his conscience. He will begin to think about his pride. He will begin to prepare the prizes for those who can deliver him results.
~ Hilary Mantel
To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
~ Gregory Benford
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~ Jeff Shaara
Remember that this is a game of defense as well as offense and be prepared to protect the areas which you occupy. —FROM THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BOARD GAME RISK
~ Jeffery Deaver
The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy-- he's a tippler-- saying that our faces brought him closer to God. And it's true, we're terribly good-looking people.
~ David Sedaris
N'était-ce pas le seul dieu moderne auquel on ait foi, l'Argent dans toute sa puissance, exprimé par une seule physionomie ? Les doux sentiments de la vie n'occupaient là qu'une place secondaire, ils animaient trois cœurs purs, ceux de Nanon, d'Eugénie et sa mère. Encore, combien d'ignorance dans leur naïveté !
~ Honore de Balzac
Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
~ Kevin Mitnick
I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere.
~ Jim Butcher
Thus, when the permed chanteuse whose chair I occupied returned, it was with confidence that I stood up and said to Lana, Let's go to the bar. Principle five: statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no. She shrugged and offered me her hand.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
This is already true now, when you are still occupied, each with the other's presence, in an exclusive fashion. Imagine how it will be in a little while, when ghosts that do not meet will frequent your minds, accompanying the encounters of your bodies tested by habit.
~ Italo Calvino
jinn . . . occupy bodies which are in a liminal state . . . when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment
~ J. M. Ledgard
What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.
~ Rhys Ifans
I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep myself occupied I'm unhappy and unpleasant.
~ Unknown
Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited.
~ Marcel Proust
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.
~ Vandana Shiva
I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.
~ Mary Karr