Too Busy Quotes - Page 7

• A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be.  It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living.  Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

  Mark Strand

  Busy, Imagine, Permit

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• He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

  Mona Simpson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Mona Simpson (2011). “A Regular Guy”, p.3, Vintage

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• Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Spiritual, Busy

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.124, SPCK

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• I'm actually happier with my body now . . . because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's.

  Cindy Crawford

  Views, Age, Body

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• I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

  Terry Kath

  Worry, Movement, Busy

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• There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Encouragement, Prayer, Children

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• We're too busy busting whorehouses or solving murders. That's what makes the show so funny

  Jaime Bergman

  Murder, Busy, Shows

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• You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

  Eva Longoria

  Graduation, Busy

  "Eva Longoria Graduates With Master's Degree In Chicano Studies". www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2013.

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• She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.

  Leslie Ludy

  Jesus, Romance, Passionate

  Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.13, Harvest House Publishers

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• We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

  Mark Twain

  Relationship, Children, Mean

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the US tax code, you'd find at least one sex scene. ("Yes, yes, YES!" moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture...)

  Dave Barry

  Sex, Law, Nerd

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• I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, People, Busy

  Alice Hoffman (2010). “Green Angel”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

  Frances Hardinge

  Heroic, Busy, Seems

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• The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

  William Inge

  Thoughtful, Usa, America

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• If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

  Bill Hybels

  Children, Proud, Praying

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• He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  Samuel Butler

  Education, Teaching, Men

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• Ya called Fargo yet?” “No, I’ve been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon’s soul. Being evil is a full-time job.

  Jana Oliver

  Jobs, Evil, Soul

  Jana Oliver (2011). “Soul Thief: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.260, Macmillan

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• I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and what looked suspiciously like tears leaking out from under his closed eyes. "Not that bad," he muttered, and then he was off again.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Tears, Arms

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.259, Penguin

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• Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

  Rajneesh

  Enlightenment, Busy, Rich

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• You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

  Seneca the Younger

  Home, Night, Wish

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• If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

  Martin Zwilling

  Doors, Mentoring, Busy

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• If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

  Mike Bickle

  Prayer, Busy, Relationship With God

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• When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Twenties, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• 'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Talking

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• My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Phones, Trying

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