Preoccupied Quotes

We are the favorites, so there can not be much more pressure... Am I preoccupied by England? No. There is also pressure on them, they know what they have to do. - Jacques Santini

Tolkien went through it himself (as an infantryman) in World War I. But it just got worse in his lifetime... I think he was very preoccupied with the nature of evil, the nature of technology, the way in which things could be abused, the way good intentions are subverted. That's what it's all about. - Tom Shippey

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. - Jesse Jackson

This was a rather standard procedure for the defendant to buy gifts and to do things for the mothers in those cases to keep them preoccupied so the defendant would have free rein with the child involved. - Tom Sneddon

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

They really have to focus like a laser beam on the unique challenges that we, as a nation, face because my concern is if we have the homeland security director dealing with floodwaters, we could have a terrorist attack while we're preoccupied. - Mark Foley

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. - Brian Ferneyhough

The workaholic maintains a frantic schedule. He is consistently preoccupied with performance. He finds it difficult to refuse additional responsibilities. He is unable to relax. If someone you know exhibits these characteristics, he or she is probably a workaholic. - Bill Hybels

The struggle between the local power brokers and satraps and the president is the invisible real politics... are preoccupied with elections, the relation between the president and the parliament. - Frederick Starr

The administration seems like it's preoccupied with a lot of other issues from Iraq (to Hurricane) Katrina, the economy. - David Makovsky