Occupies Quotes

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

Mind, Idea, State

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Place, Seldom, Principal

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Others, Matter, Lives

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Hate, Country, Minds

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
Bo Bennett

Life, Work, Happiness

A first love always occupies a special place.
Lee Konitz

Love, Special, Place

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Marshall McLuhan

Time, Same, Space

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis

Art, Mind, Rather

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Someone, Him, Position

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Understand, Special, Place

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.
Cynthia McKinney

America, Free, Fair

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag

Seems, Taken, Large

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow

Love, Music, Politics

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
Lytton Strachey

Same, Literature, National

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
Marissa Mayer

Moment, Wonderful, Along

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
Anish Kapoor

Same, Body, Space

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti

Success, Space, Newspaper

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Work, Majority, Bread

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.
Henry Mayhew

Whole, Within, Space

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.
Orson Pratt

God, True, Place

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.
Orson Pratt

Matter, Holy, Spirit

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
Jose Maria Aznar

History, Place, March

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
Ferdinand de Saussure

Special, Place, Rather

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Chuck Close

Real, Person, Around

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.
Michael Chiklis

Life, End, Greatest

When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.
Preston Manning

Someone, Win, Else

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
Tomas Transtromer

Society, Poetry, Dark

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
Francois Mauriac

Great, Men, Few

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