A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
Arthur Miller

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
John Amery

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
Juan Cole

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
Edwidge Danticat

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome

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

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.
Wilhelm Ostwald

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
John Ralston Saul

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
James Longstreet

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

God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
King Hussein I

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
John James Audubon

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.
Hassan Nasrallah

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
Margaret Mahy