Preoccupation Quotes

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Preoccupation Definition

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
Salvatore Quasimodo

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
Michael Shermer

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Steven Spielberg

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
Roger Bannister

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Robert Morgan

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
Wynton Marsalis

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Nicolas de Chamfort

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Elie Wiesel

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope Lively

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
Nancy Travis

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Sidney Poitier

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson

Quotes