Occupied Quotes

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

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.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

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

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

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.

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

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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.

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

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

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

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.

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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

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

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young.