Busy Quotes
1887 Busy quotes by 1355 unique authors
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So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Do not stand still disputing about your election, but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you;…
— Joseph Alleine
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Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
— Rajneesh
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The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots…
— Hal Boyle
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always…
— Leon Edel
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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
— Meryl Streep
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis…
— Minnie Pearl
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Hello...Although you (reporters) are busy thank you for coming to this place. Today, the reason that I called you...I wanted to talk about some girl.…
— Youngjae
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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them
— J. Harold Smith
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I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very still ...It is…
— Mattie Stepanek
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Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know…
— Erwin Chargaff
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He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room,…
— Derek Luke
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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he…
— Immanuel Kant
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Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my…
— Haruki Murakami
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We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
— Angelus Silesius
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Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one…
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy…
— Yukio Mishima
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Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic…
— Hugh Nibley
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If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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