#occupied

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? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#being #down #ever #everywhere #form

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#get #i #occupied #very

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth. ↗

— Juan Cole

#change #character #forth #laws #make

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#after #american #areas #asia #attempts

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. ↗

— Iain Pears

#laziness #occupation #occupied-france #politics #war

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

#destiny #hundreds #land #occupied #outcome

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#friendship #justice #moral #occupied #science

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

#body #concern #deeply #drinking #dull

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ↗

— John James Audubon

#cared #cares #drawing #every #fishing

I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#any #bit #fashion #going #heavily