Quotes About Harried

I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

Getting into Sundance is a certain sort of passport to a level of anxiety I've never experienced, even having had a baby in the NICU for a week. For about ten minutes, you're a world-class director. Then you become an entry-level, harried, low level concierge with absolutely no juice.

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

Seeking a balance between doing and being is complex. But as my friend Lisa Whelchel reminds me, we're human beings, not human doings. Perhaps it's best, then, to err on the side of less doing and more being, to spend time in thankful quiet each day before racing and chasing in this hurried and harried culture of ours.

What hair she had looked like scrambled eggs in string form, in wild clumps and in single strands, giving her the appearance of a wired, harried, ancient, terrified professor.

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

The harried solicitor gripped the rim of his hat as he held it against his chest and peered anxiously at Amanda

The local legend is of some harried god turning all the snakes into stone so that he could get some peace from the peasants' pitiful petitioning.

He had already incapacitated me, harried me, cut away most of my illusions and some of my ignorance; he had already so weakened me that I was falling back on myths, words, mysteries to replace what I had lost.