Precoccupation Quotes & Sayings

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose. — Eric Hoffer

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization. — Jules Verne

Living in God's righteousness and conducting your work according to God's golden principles will undoubtedly lead any born again Christian to incredible success — Sunday Adelaja

This tiger is sprawled
So still and so flat,
A question arises
When glancing thereat.
Is he asleep? to be
Perfectly frank,
He looks more as if
He was creamed by a tank! — Bill Watterson

The problem with my mother is that she didn't go to the doctor. And I think by the time she started to show symptoms that something might not be right, and finally went to the doctor, she was so close to her death that she couldn't get the care she had needed. Her big issue was not going to the doctor. — Andie MacDowell

Dwarves' tongues run on when speaking of their handiwork, they say. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Why is dissatisfaction taken to be a mark of failing powers and patience, when it might just as easily be understood as a proper judgment on a foolish world? — Howard Jacobson

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. — Benjamin Franklin

My sounds [crying] were small and muffled but obvious. No one paid any attention. It was the way we had become. In a world full of sorrows, this was only one more. — Elizabeth Berg