Quotes with occupied

  • Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
  • It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
  • Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
  • But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
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  • Epictetus It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Arthur Miller A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Arthur Cayley But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Barbara Bush Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Blaise Pascal If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Laurence Peter In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
    The Peter Principle
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  • Adam Weishaupt In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Asa Gray Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Voltaire Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • William James Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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  • Walter Savage Landor No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Bernard Berenson Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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