Busyness Quote by Sharon Creech

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“The old world had been consumed with the search for More Stuff. Now there was more stuff than anyone could ever use, and little…

— Dan Wells

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“But I wondered. Maybe the world wasn't made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people.…

— Clare Vanderpool

“as they drifted they had gathered trouble and a great deal of peculiar knowledge about human beings, what human beings would do or say…

— Paulette Jiles

“But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an opportunity to…

— Issac Marion

“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“These were the world’s first people. Everything they did, every action and decision, was entirely new, without precedent. They had no larger society to…

— Helene Wecker

“People on Earth engaged in ritual repetition; most of them thought as little as possible; most of them occupied themselves with things and events…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen?”

— M.R. Carey

“But it was more than that. There was an indefinable ingredient, a kind of excitement. It had something to do with history and the…

— Barbara Vine