#occupied

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. ↗

— Lactantius

#capitol #city #dedicated #engines #had

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#difficult #difficult thing #doing #ever #his

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#ancient #ancient greeks #composition #greeks #mind

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#century #healthier #law #lives #longer

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#careful #everybody #knows #occupied #over

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

#does #dying #itself #life #living

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#any #comfort #consider #find #fresh

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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

— Arnold H. Glasow

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