Every cop will tell you that their real job is being a social worker. That's what they do all day. The large majority of police officers in this country never even draw their gun, let alone fire it. They do conflict resolution, right? And if that's their job, why do they need to look like they're an occupying force?
Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?
I think I know now why we are occupying Iraq. In case we have to sell America and move to a smaller country.
Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.
I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.
The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria.
In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him. . . that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him - totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate.
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your mind a blank all at once. So in the beginning try to prevent evil or idle thoughts by occupying your mind with the analysis of your own faults, or the contemplation of the Perfect Ones.
We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.