Quotes about Occupy

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement. Votes: 3

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. Votes: 3

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. Votes: 3

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines. Votes: 3

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise. Votes: 3

Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination. Votes: 3

May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world. Votes: 3

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. Votes: 3

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change. Votes: 3

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time. Votes: 3

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. Votes: 3

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. Votes: 3

Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders. Votes: 3

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing. Votes: 3

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share. Votes: 3

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote. Votes: 3

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in. Votes: 3

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. Votes: 3

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution. Votes: 3

I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty? Votes: 3

On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground. Votes: 3

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom. Votes: 3

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America. Votes: 3

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country. Votes: 3

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement. Votes: 3

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors! Votes: 3

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world. Votes: 3

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two. Votes: 3

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country. Votes: 3

If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully! Votes: 3

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent. Votes: 3

Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery. Votes: 3

I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists. Votes: 3

Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers. Votes: 3

At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate. Votes: 3

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. Votes: 3

I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street. Votes: 3

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail. Votes: 3

We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. Votes: 3

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard. Votes: 3

So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements. Votes: 3

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Votes: 3

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope. Votes: 3

Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. Votes: 3

Herman Cain told a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters to go home, get a job, and get a life. That's the Republican version of hope and change, ladies and gentlemen. Votes: 3

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. Votes: 3

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean. Votes: 3

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power. Votes: 3

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power. Votes: 3

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context. Votes: 3

In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities. Votes: 3

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on. Votes: 3

The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole. Votes: 3

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street. Votes: 3

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up. Votes: 3

Yesterday the CEO of Citigroup said that he can understand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact, he felt so bad for them, he gave himself a $10 million sympathy bonus. Votes: 3

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. Votes: 3

Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis. Votes: 3

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective. Votes: 3

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. Votes: 3

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep. Votes: 3

Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world. Votes: 3

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?' Votes: 3

People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. Votes: 3

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy. Votes: 3

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant. Votes: 3

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? Votes: 3

As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now. Votes: 3

Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues. Votes: 3

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. Votes: 3

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable. Votes: 3

The new elites have no allegiances to nation states and don't care about the damage they do to workers, the environment, or the rest of humanity. They are unhinged sociopaths, far removed from what the Occupy Movement called the '99 percent.' Votes: 3

The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be. Votes: 3

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point. Votes: 3

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent. Votes: 3

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work. Votes: 3

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important. Votes: 3

You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society. Votes: 3

When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street. Votes: 3

I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes. Votes: 3

Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide. Votes: 3

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. Votes: 1

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself. Votes: 1

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. Votes: 1

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. Votes: 1

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. Votes: 1

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. Votes: 1

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. Votes: 1

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Votes: 1

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience. Votes: 1

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. Votes: 1

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken. Votes: 1

Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that. Votes: 1

The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity. Votes: 1

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need. Votes: 1

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. Votes: 1

I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.' Votes: 1

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. Votes: 1

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. Votes: 1

Poetry should only occupy the idle. Votes: 0

Kentucky wants to occupy some clock Votes: 0

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side. Votes: 0

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind. Votes: 0

Fear and God do not occupy the same space. Votes: 0

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I. Votes: 0

I'm not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living. Votes: 0

Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space? Votes: 0

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. Votes: 0

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men. Votes: 0

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. Votes: 0

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy. Votes: 0

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. Votes: 0

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily Votes: 0

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie) Votes: 0

As long as we dare dream, we can occupy new land. Votes: 0

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it. Votes: 0

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay. Votes: 0

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me. Votes: 0

Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Votes: 0

They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart! Votes: 0

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. Votes: 0

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. Votes: 0

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth. Votes: 0

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. Votes: 0

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action. Votes: 0

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells. Votes: 0

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling. Votes: 0

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day. Votes: 0

There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space. Votes: 0

If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide. Votes: 0

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region. Votes: 0

Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions. Votes: 0

I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing. Votes: 0

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Votes: 0

But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price. Votes: 0

Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet. Votes: 0

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on. Votes: 0

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. Votes: 0

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Votes: 0

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. Votes: 0

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination. Votes: 0

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. Votes: 0

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. Votes: 0

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. Votes: 0

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet. Votes: 0

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space. Votes: 0

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make. Votes: 0

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. . Votes: 0

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors. Votes: 0

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind. Votes: 0

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. Votes: 0

My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns. Votes: 0

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along. Votes: 0

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect. Votes: 0

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. Votes: 0

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." Votes: 0

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind. Votes: 0

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us. Votes: 0

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf), Votes: 0

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. Votes: 0

To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems. Votes: 0

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. Votes: 0

I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals. Votes: 0

The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy! Votes: 0

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. Votes: 0

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. Votes: 0

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives. Votes: 0

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. Votes: 0

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. Votes: 0

It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action Votes: 0

When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it. Votes: 0

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. Votes: 0

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. Votes: 0

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. Votes: 0

He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him. Votes: 0

He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat - more room to spread out, you see. Votes: 0

jinn . . . occupy bodies which are in a liminal state . . . when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment Votes: 0

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound. Votes: 0

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power. Votes: 0

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations. Votes: 0

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day. Votes: 0

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself. Votes: 0

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play. Votes: 0

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. Votes: 0

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help. Votes: 0

With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy. Votes: 0

Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench. Votes: 0

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny. Votes: 0

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations. Votes: 0

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy. Votes: 0

People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it. Votes: 0

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind. Votes: 0

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space. Votes: 0

They [the United States] violate our land and occupy it and steal the Muslims' possessions, and when faced by resistance they call it terrorism. Votes: 0

Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence! Votes: 0

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet. Votes: 0

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature. Votes: 0

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them. Votes: 0

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial. Votes: 0

There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance. Votes: 0

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there. Votes: 0

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells. Votes: 0

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. Votes: 0

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it. Votes: 0

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody. Votes: 0

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe. Votes: 0

Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground. Votes: 0

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world. Votes: 0

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. Votes: 0

I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can physically occupy a song. Votes: 0

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy. Votes: 0

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. Votes: 0

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy. Votes: 0

Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight. Votes: 0

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced. Votes: 0

We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good. Votes: 0

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it. Votes: 0

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it. Votes: 0

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs. Votes: 0

When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief Votes: 0

With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up. Votes: 0

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity! Votes: 0

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed. Votes: 0

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one. Votes: 0

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men. Votes: 0

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify. Votes: 0

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind. Votes: 0

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything. Votes: 0

If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated. Votes: 0

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. Votes: 0

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts. Votes: 0

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader. Votes: 0

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind. Votes: 0

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. Votes: 0

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure. Votes: 0

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball. Votes: 0

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport. Votes: 0

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay. Votes: 0

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you. Votes: 0

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter! Votes: 0

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war. Votes: 0

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages. Votes: 0

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit. Votes: 0

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing. Votes: 0

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it. Votes: 0

People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water. Votes: 0

I wrote it alone, for him, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him. Votes: 0

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact. Votes: 0

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time. Votes: 0

We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost. Votes: 0

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing. Votes: 0

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground. Votes: 0

This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home. Votes: 0

Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters. Votes: 0

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable. Votes: 0

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy. Votes: 0

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy. Votes: 0

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society Votes: 0

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. Votes: 0

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you. Votes: 0

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place Votes: 0

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue. Votes: 0

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill. Votes: 0

Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. Votes: 0

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists. Votes: 0

I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children. Votes: 0

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power. Votes: 0

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence. Votes: 0

So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze; The place we occupy seems all the world. Votes: 0

If you knew that you only had one day to live, what would you think about-your car or favorite pair of shoes or would it be the more everyday joys that occupy your mind? Votes: 0

I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero. Votes: 0

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. Votes: 0

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us. Votes: 0

We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations. Votes: 0

Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse. Votes: 0

There were neighbors that I played with and did all the things that children do. I did mow the lawn. I did help with various things that needed to be done to occupy my time. Votes: 0

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world. Votes: 0

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. Votes: 0

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life. Votes: 0

People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country. Votes: 0