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I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait. — Ilona Andrews
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait. — Ilona Andrews
Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.
— Laini Taylor
In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.
— Benito Mussolini
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.
— Graham Greene
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
— Walter Savage Landor
I was told to come to this temple. I found it occupied. So I unoccupied it. You're welcome.
— Sarah J. Maas
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
— Nikola Tesla
The key if one wishes to avoid dwelling on unpleasant memories or inconvenient truths is to keep yourself occupied.
— Mark Lawrence
Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.
— Alexis Tsipras
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps me my mind occupied.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Thus occupied, and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like days.
— Charlotte Bronte
Astronomy, mixed with astrology, occupied a large number of tablets in the Babylonian libraries,
— Ethelbert William Bullinger
Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls
— Margaret Thatcher
The horizontal world I had thought I occupied was tilting, dumping me somewhere else, somewhere new.
— Jerry Spinelli
My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.
— Debi Mazar
You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw ... nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
— Jerry Spinelli
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
— Arthur Miller
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
— Charles Lamb
A good wife always encourages her husband in his interests. For one thing, they keep him occupied and out from under foot most of the day.
— Ann B. Ross
There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.
— Archibald F. Bennett
Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.
— Brandon Mull
What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
— Yasser Arafat
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
— Norm MacDonald
It mattered a great deal who occupied your country. The
— George Friedman
Harshaw was working as hard as he ever worked. Most of his mind was occupied with watching pretty girls do pretty things with sun and water;
— Robert A. Heinlein
I don't remember that." He shook his head. "Of course you don't. You were in another world, completely occupied with whatever you were reading.
— Emery Lord
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?
— Edward Said
There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.
— D.E. Stevenson
This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.
— Leonard Cohen
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
— Arlen Specter
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
— Jack McDevitt
It wasn't only our country they occupied," Irene explained to Amir Shah. "They occupied our minds.
— Sorayya Khan
Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.
— C.S. Lewis
Having occupied both sides of the podium, I greatly prefer no podium at all. Just a conversation between reader and author.
— Oran Kangas
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
— Winston Churchill
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
— George Bernard Shaw
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.
— David Foster Wallace
(T)here were always vacancies in the construct of life: blank spaces occupied by the unseen guest, the absent friend.
— Stephanie Kallos
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
— Dorothee Solle
Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different.
— David Lagercrantz
Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection.
— James C. Scott
Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.
— Ralph Nader
God would seem to be too occupied in being unable to take Her eyes off of us to spend any time raising an eyebrow in disapproval.
— Gregory J. Boyle
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
— Arnold H. Glasow
You can scream, angel. I love the sound of my name coming from your lips, especially while I'm occupied with these ones.
— Karina Halle
We are all in "the perpetual quest for keeping oneself occupied, entertained, and important - which burns at the edge of addiction.
— Jana Richman
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
— Herodotus
It was dangerous to overflow, because we might end up flooding areas occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.
— Paulo Coelho
I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.
— Anthony Hopkins
But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.
— Leo Tolstoy
The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
— Orson Scott Card
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.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband / baby thing. Besides I have a dog.
— Calista Flockhart
I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.
— Alice Hoffman
There were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
— Ursula Curtiss
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
— Johannes Stark
The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved.
— Katherine Paterson
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Stolen from someone. Like they stole everything. Occupied. I was occupied. I disappeared.
— Jojo Moyes
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
— John James Audubon
Beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
— Ian McEwan
You guys keep her kid occupied while we get it on upstairs.
— Bella Jeanisse
Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
— John Ralston Saul
Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.
— Andy Murray
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
What happens to the space that two people occupied together? How can it just disappear? Why can't it just become something else?
— Melissa Broder
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
— Victor Hugo
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
— Simone De Beauvoir
What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing - for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.
— Shaikh Ashraf
We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,
or our faith or lack of faith,
but only with what God has said — Gordon Lindsay
or our faith or lack of faith,
but only with what God has said — Gordon Lindsay
I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.
— Al Geiberger
You can't have occupation and human rights.
— Christopher Hitchens
thoughts about them living alone in German-occupied Shedlitz
— Amira Keidar
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.
— Ben Bernanke
Tell me a story then ... keep me occupied."
"A story? ... What makes you think I can tell a story?"
"Insight," said the king, "Go on. — Megan Whalen Turner
"A story? ... What makes you think I can tell a story?"
"Insight," said the king, "Go on. — Megan Whalen Turner
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
— Jonathan Swift
All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?
— Robert L. Park
Today worrying means to be occupied and preoccupied with many things, while at the same time being bored, resentful, depressed, and very lonely.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
the worlds that they thought they'd left behind reclaimed each of them, I occupied the place where their dreams had been.
— Barack Obama
If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease
— Dalai Lama
Death occupied the spaces between us.
— Yeonmi Park
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
— Westbrook Pegler
The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.
— Robert H. Jackson