#occupied

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #behind #beyond #campaign #defensive

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not. ↗

— Betty Ford

#alcoholic #because #going #i #know

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#bands #border #bull #camp #canadian

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#american television #choice #ethnicity #food #i

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#examine #find #future #occupied #our

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

I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #changing #director #doing #else

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #combination #contradictory #creative #creative life

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#lands #limited #more #new #soon

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#disease #every #history #hypothesis #lie