I am relentlessly determine to be occupied with Jesus Christ and His Glorious Gospel and nothing else.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
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.
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.
The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.
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.
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
