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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

  Kami Garcia

  Strong, Stupid, Thinking

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2009). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.135, Hachette UK

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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 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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• 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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• When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Doors, Knowing

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• (M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Flower, People, Honest

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• Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)

  Rick Riordan

  Hey, Rats, Hello

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• And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Thinking, Self, Apples

  "Strange Angels (Strange Angels, Book 1)". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, May 14, 2009.

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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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• If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Important, Negative

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.11, WaterBrook

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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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• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Art, Self

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• Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Teacher, Writing, School

  "Christopher Paolini: 'Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon'" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Technology, Phones

  2002 In Wired, Jun.

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• I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

  Angie Stone

  Always On The Go, Junk, Lasts

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• One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love. But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Expression, Looks, Too Much

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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