Occupy Quotes

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.
Cary Grant

Best, Morning, Simple

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.
Erma Bombeck

Sun, Off, Ourselves

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.
Mitt Romney

Lost, May, Wish

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Small, Become, Minds

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?'
Colin Powell

Anger, Political, Enough

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Eyes, Place, Body

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.
Colin Powell

Society, Others, Unhappy

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.
David Bailey

Nature, Body, Exercise

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Greedy, Share, Movement

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.
Christopher Walken

Time, Children, Play

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
Johnny Cash

Work, Wife, Died

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.
Brian Eno

Attention, Point, Exist

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

Alone, Emotional, Feelings

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Him, Himself, Questions

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

Mind, Long, Forgive

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

Great, Fight, Saying

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.
Maimonides

Power, Respect, Greatness

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

Political, Country, America

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.
Dan Rather

Political, Busy, Spring

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
Sarah Palin

Place, Wrong, Protesting

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
Robert Browning

Age, Death, Dream

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.
Eliot Spitzer

Success, Her, Point

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?
Hassan Nasrallah

After, Else, Able

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.
Johnny Rotton

Good, Political, Genius

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.
Isak Dinesen

Life, Love, Age

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.
Nigel Farage

Start, Movement, Suspect

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
Nigel Farage

Makes, Shall, News

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
Jim DeMint

Win, Vote, Street

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield

Small, Place, Large

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.
Richard Russo

Life, Book, Try

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