Quotation Explorer - 'Occupied'

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein
I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else. - John Paul Warren
Never give anybody permission to disturb your peace. Always ignore negative comment.Dwell on positive thoughts and occupied your mind with songs of praise. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. - Douglas Adams
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. - Dorothee Solle
We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said - Gordon Lindsay
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. - Christopher Morley
Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection. - James C. Scott
The holy country is occupied by holy citizens. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein
That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia. - Shreya Gupta
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. - Mother Teresa
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. - Blaise Pascal
In state of deep depression, I stayed alone; my time was occupied with reading sacred books. - Lailah Gifty Akita
What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence - Linda Grant
The space between "Girl" and "Friend" is occupied by an infinite universe called ‪#‎FriendZone‬.It's a one way road. :P - Crestless Wave
I am ceaselessly occupied with the question of the constitution of radiation This quantum question is so incredibly important and difficult that everyone should busy himself on it. - Albert Einstein
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting. - Aristotle
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. - Oscar Wilde
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence. - Thomas Jefferson
Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment? - Lailah Gifty Akita
Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself. - W. Ian Thomas
The Mind can think only one thought at a time. If your mind is occupied by a meaningless thought, you block a meaningful thought from entering it. - RVM
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. - Michael Bassey Johnson
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