Too Busy Quotes - Page 2

• Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

  John Vianney

  Religious, Children, Catholic

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• Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Mind, Vision

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• If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?

  Francis Chan

  Crazy, Believe, Waste

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.133, David C Cook

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• I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

  Miranda Leek

  School, College, Piano

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• I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

  Jared Polis

  Thinking, Purpose, Next

  "Shenanigans: get to know Rep.Jared Polis". Interview by Anne Schroeder Mullins, www.politico.com. December 01, 2009.

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• We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving Up, Pain, Responsibility

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• Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

  Saul Bellow

  Religious, People, Busy

  Saul Bellow (1994). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future : a Nonfiction Collection”, New York : Viking

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• That Islam you see on TV does not represent me, I'm too busy waging jihad against myself, My own nafs are my enemy. I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam, Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Sorry, Hands, Land

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• In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

  Gordon Korman

  Childhood, Trying, World

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The 39 Clues #8: The Emperor's Code”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

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• I figured we'd be too busy running for our lives than for him to make a move anyway. (Dana)

  Jenna Black

  Running, Moving, Busy

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• Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Years, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Fun, Team, Causes

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.28, Delacorte Press

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• Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse?

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Christmas, Running

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• Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sweaters, Brain, Busy

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• I have a lot of friends, in and out of golf, and there is a mutual trust. I'm very serious at the course. Maybe if I joked around more around the press tent, your image of me would be different. But that's not me. And the golf course is my office. If I come up to you when you're writing a story, are you going to drop everything to talk? Or are you going to say you're too busy doing your job?

  Vijay Singh

  Jobs, Writing, Golf

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• But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much.

  J. K. Rowling

  I Like You, Hunting, World

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• Kyouya my hair stylist. Mori-senpi go to the eye doctor and get him some contact lenses. -Tamaki What about me Tama-chan? -Hunny Hunny senpi. -Tamaki Yes sir! -Hunny You... go have some cake. -Tamaki It's just us Ousa-chan.Everyone else said they were too busy. . . -Hunny

  Bisco Hatori

  Eye, Doctors, Hair

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• He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.

  Gena Showalter

  Jobs, Men, Worry

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Whisper”, p.180, HQN Books

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• There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.

  Gayle Forman

  Fire, Feet, Attention

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.55, Penguin

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• You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Pain, Loneliness

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Earshot". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Running, Loss

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• His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Girlfriend, Fun

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• I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

  Henry VIII of England

  Men, Charity, Busy

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• If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?

  Elias Chacour

  Issues, People, Giving

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• My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Language, Busy

  "How I do my computing". stallman.org. 2006.

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