Unoccupied Quotes

#1. Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to do so.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#2. I would slay dragons for you," he told her. "I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.

Patricia Briggs

#3. In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women's household chores from the category of productive work and, for the first time, housewives were classified as unoccupied.

Gabrielle Palmer

#4. There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

Josiah Strong

#5. The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#6. All kinds of weird stuff going down, whisperings in corners, significant matches struck and blown out. The whores, unoccupied, were drinking heavily. The police, occupied were drinking even more heavily. The grass in the corner wanted to drink most heavily, but lacked the poke.

Iain Sinclair

#7. Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

Josiah Strong

#8. Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#9. It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

Lin Yutang

#10. I was told to come to this temple. I found it occupied. So I unoccupied it. You're welcome.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. It was just one push/pull in our twenty-three years on the push/pull continuum. When my own was airless and warm, I would reach out, pat, find that unoccupied part, the cool part of his pillow.

Rodney Ross

#12. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

Norah Vincent

#13. But seriously Holden, what is the island called now?"

"Sentosa," Holden said romantically and with a flourish of his unoccupied left hand.

"Sentosa. Sounds romantic all right. So this is the progress you're talking about?

Robert Yeo

#14. One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

Edith Wharton

#15. Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

Harry Johnston

#16. The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

Jurgen Habermas

#17. I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Geraldine Brooks

#18. The man doesn't acknowledge you as you sit down because the man knows more about the unoccupied seat than you do. For him, you imagine, it is more like breath than wonder; he has had to think about it so much you wouldn't call it thought.

Claudia Rankine

#19. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Horace Mann

#20. The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost.

Samuel Marinus Zwemer

#21. I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#22. Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. What is best and most necessary usually happens.

Knute Nelson

#24. Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

Michael Bloomberg

#25. You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky