#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. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#entire #i #i believe #i believe that #jordan

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#been #behave #democratic #fair #focus

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

#big enough #bigger #demands #enough #every

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#deadlines #i #just #other #preoccupied

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#advice #beautiful #because #become #direction

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

— Dwight Schultz

#fascinating #great #i #life #me

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. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#another #another man #captures #capturing #continues

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#forces #foreign #iraq #occupied #soil

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#created #delicious #eating #foods #i