Preoccupy Synonym Quotes & Sayings

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character. — Tommy Lasorda

There is no way to completely fail unless you completely quit. — Jon Jones

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing. — Kenneth Cranham

You call that evening the odds? You demolished them."
Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one."
"I noticed."
"I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite. — Ilona Andrews

The road to rock and roll Heaven is paved by the bleached skulls of guys like me. I had no idea such things were nearly impossible. — Greg Kihn

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. — Marya Mannes

I don't know that I understand the
human concept of jealousy. I'm not afraid of any other male taking you from me because no man who ever tried such a thing would live. But yes I hold what is mine close to me. — Tessa Dawn

My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life. — Taylor Momsen

Everything is hell now and I deserve it, but I can handle pain. — Katja Millay

If we step back from the progressive argument and put it in any other context, its absurdity immediately becomes apparent. Imagine if I were to say to my daughter, who got a high score on the SAT, "You don't deserve your scores at all. You didn't build that. After all, young lady, you had teachers who helped you with vocabulary and math. Moreover, you took the public roads to the test. Had your car been held up along the way or caught fire, you would count on the services of the police and the fire department. So society deserves a large part of the credit for those scores. They don't reflect your accomplishment but society's accomplishment." If I said this I am sure my daughter would think I was talking like an insane person. In fact, of course, I would be talking like a progressive. — Dinesh D'Souza

What, then, is the word of the religion of Jesus to those who stand with their backs against the wall? — Arthur G. Holder

In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and women's rights aren't worth dick if they mean I can't ask a man to do my bug squashing. — Janet Evanovich