Top 100 Occupies Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. All human beings go through a previous life ... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?
Honore De Balzac
#4. 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
#5. Love, like life, is so insecure. It moves in our lives and occupies its sweet space in our hearts so easily. But it never guarantees that it will stay there forever. Probably that's why it is so precious.
Ravinder Singh
#6. Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
Marissa Mayer
#7. Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.
Minor White
#8. 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
#9. The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
Epicurus
#10. Our ego occupies so much space, there is little room for anything else.
Nilesh Rathod
#11. Of the total surface area of Earth, Britain occupies just 0.0174069 per cent.
Bill Bryson
#12. The book is warm. The book is handy. The book is handsome to the eye. The book occupies the shelf of the owner and is a reflection of him or her or, actually, me. The book is always there, to be reached for, to be thumbed and, too often I admit, to wonder about: Why did I buy this?
Richard Cohen
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. The digital world offers us many advantages, but if we yield to that world too completely we may lose the privacy we need to develop a self. Activities that require time and careful attention, like serious reading, are at risk; we read less and skim more as the Internet occupies more of our lives.
David Mikics
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.
Derek Jarman
#21. Yet we keep returning to reason precisely because it occupies the middle place; it is the revisited point on the swing of the pendulum between scepticism and enthusiasm.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#22. Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
Philip Kerr
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Passion occupies a space that is not vacated until another passion occupies it.
Charles Baxter
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Battling the noise is creating a space for God and acknowledging the space He occupies, which is all of it.
Invite God into all twenty-four hours of your day.
This is the path of a #StaticJedi.
Eric Samuel Timm
#30. By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.
Sigmar Polke
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
Patrick Kavanagh
#35. Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.
Paul Billheimer
#36. Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
Anish Kapoor
#37. 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
#38. Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.
Vishnudevananda Saraswati
#39. Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
Albert Einstein
#40. He had every intention of becoming an alcoholic. It keeps you busy. Alcohol occupies every thought and provides a goal in times of despair: getting better.
Martin Page
#41. When wealth occupies a higher position than wisdom, when notoriety is admired more than dignity, when success is more important than self-respect, the culture itself overvalues "image" and must be regarded as narcissistic.
Alexander Lowen
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. To reduce sensation to a science, to make psychological analysis into a microscopically precise method - that's the goal that occupies, like a steady thirst, the hub of my life's will.
Fernando Pessoa
#45. I was once more face to face with the big bonfire that occupies the kernel of our system.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#46. I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science ... it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.
Marie Curie
#47. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies.
Gregory Maguire
#48. Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
Mario Cuomo
#49. The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you
Winston Churchill
#50. Acquired or artificial prestige is much the most common. The mere fact that an individual occupies a certain position, possesses a certain fortune, or bears certain titles, endows him with prestige, however slight his own personal worth.
Gustave Le Bon
#51. Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti
#52. 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
#53. My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#54. Con-tu-ber-nal(noun). One who occupies
the same tent; a tent-fellow, comrade.
The thought of Percy Prewitt as my contubernal causes me to break out in hives.
-From the personal dictionary of
Caroline Trent
Julia Quinn
#56. 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.
#57. 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
#58. A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.
Marcel Proust
#59. In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
Lytton Strachey
#60. The church occupies the space he has made so that the world may see what a people look like who are not determined by the destructive fantasy that we can secure our lives through violence.
Stanley Hauerwas
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
Alexander Graham Bell
#64. 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
#65. PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
Ambrose Bierce
#66. We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#67. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#68. Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,
Jules Verne
#69. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
W. Somerset Maugham
#70. 'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences have to wrestle with that beloved movie's romanticizing of racism.
Richard Corliss
#71. Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.
Paulo Coelho
#72. All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth
including America, of course
consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.
Mark Twain
#73. 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
#74. To whom to speak when the other no longer is?
The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
Edmond Jabes
#75. Matter occupies space, and you can only have space for what really matters.
Marla Miniano
#77. 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
#78. As soon as he disappears around the corner, CeCe, the secretary who occupies the left side of
Magda Alexander
#79. 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
#80. It is the Arab world of the Middle East, holding 99.8 percent of that sector which, with such virulent hatred, would wholly exclude Israel from the minuscule territory that it occupies, which is presently under .2 percent of that region.76
Barry E. Horner
#81. 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
#82. The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#83. 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
#84. It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.
William Manchester
#85. Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.
Douglas Adams
#86. Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.
Sarah Manguso
#87. 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
#88. It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves ...
William Landay
#89. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda
#90. 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
#91. Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
Simon Armitage
#92. When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.
Michael Chiklis
#93. Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.
Swami Vivekananda
#94. A word's meaning depends not so much on its linguistic past but rather on the place the word occupies in relation to the general system of the language at the period in question.
Jean-Pierre Vernant
#95. Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.
Horace Mann
#96. The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.
Charles Tupper
#97. Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
Adam Mansbach
#98. 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
#99. That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.
Thomas Paine
#100. 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
