Too Busy Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now I'm hot and bothered, and wondering why my new neighbor isn't putting the moves on me." "Maybe he doesn't want to push you too far, too fast and scare you off." Gideon's eyes glittered in the light of the television. "Is that so?" He nuzzled his nose against my temple. "If he has half a brain, he'd know not to let you get away." Oh... "Maybe I should make the first move," I whispered, wrapping my fingers around his wrist. "But what if he thinks I'm too easy?" "He'll be too busy thinking he's damned luck.

  Sylvia Day

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.571, Penguin

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• I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

  Lawrence James

  Regret, Hate, Anger

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• A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Lying, Past, Men

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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

  Terry Kath

  Worry, Movement, Busy

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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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• 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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• OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

  Bil Keane

  Mother, Children, Parenting

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• Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." But here's the thing: You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

  Kerry Washington

  Badass, School, Thinking About You

  Kerry Washington's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Death, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, University of Missouri Press

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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 never seemed too busy.

  Minnie Pearl

  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.

  Roddy Piper

  Busy, Masturbation, Mary

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• Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

  Roger von Oech

  Attitude, Lazy, Arrogant

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• I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

  Charles Mingus

  Symphony, Listening, Attention

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• It's lame when I'm hanging out with my friends and they're so busy taking pictures to put on Facebook, instead of enjoying what they're doing. You're gonna look back and have 10 million pictures, but you're not in one of them because you were too busy clicking away. I think it's best to stop telling people about it and enjoy the moment you're in yourself.

  Miley Cyrus

  Thinking, People, Doing You

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• Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

  Aidan Quinn

  Fire, Focus, Everyday

  "HuffPost Interview: Aidan Quinn talks about Sarah’s Key". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Art, Responsibility

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• You ride one in to the beach, and it's the most amazing thing you've ever felt. But at some point the water goes back out; it has to. And maybe you're lucky-maybe you're both too busy to do anything drastic. Maybe you're good as friends, so you stay. And then something happens-maybe it's something as big as a baby, or as small as him unloading the dishwasher-and the wave comes back in again. And it does that, over and over. I just think sometimes people forget to wait.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Baby, Beach, Thinking

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.31, Penguin

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