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Quotes About Busy

Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth.
~ Plato
Only the body and its desires cause war, civil discord, and battles, for all wars are due to the desire to acquire wealth, and it is the body and the care of it, to which [d] we are enslaved, which compel us to acquire wealth, and all this makes us too busy to practice philosophy.
~ Plato
usual call to quarters. This was part of the daily routine, but on this occasion, with a chase in sight, the preparation and inspection was more than usually rigorous, the captain himself accompanying the first lieutenant round the decks to see that all was in order and ready for action; so that all hands were kept busy till it was time to pipe down the hammocks and set the watch.
~ Unknown
Shane: Bro, he said, in an injured tone, I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren't there to see it. Michael: Pics or it didn't happen. Shane: Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.
~ Rachel Caine
Pics or it didn't happen. Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.
~ Rachel Caine
A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege....
~ Rachel Cohn
It was fortunate that the room was empty, except for half a score or so of servants. These were busy enough laying out the six couple of roast fowl, the twenty pheasants, the baron of beef, the venison pies, gooseberry pies, and plum pudding, and they had no time or inclination to pay the least attention to their master's private conversation with his wife.
~ Unknown
I was not doing really nice work on television because I was busy doing assignments down South.
~ Sudha Chandran
I'll even cut things. Or, I'll guesstimate it, and I'll have my assistant get it hemmed for me because I don't have time.
~ Kourtney Kardashian
I don't have a lot of downtime.
~ Dean Norris
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~ Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
~ Iris Murdoch
In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy, too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
~ Isaac Watts
It's bizarre: sometimes I go through periods where I really want to put a song up online, and sometimes I'm sort of busy with other things... It's very much a hobby, that kind of thing. I sort of post it more for maybe my mom's benefit, and suddenly she says, 'It's got 50,000 views.' And I think maybe I should've put it as private.
~ George Blagden
The reality of government is we are all very busy day-to-day, and often, the discussions about very deeply held views on things - there isn't the time and space to do that.
~ Andrea Leadsom
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
~ James Gleick
He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara
~ Jodi Picoult
If you don't have time to cook, I have developed a line of boxed soups and salad dressings to make it convenient for even the busiest person to eat the Nutritarian way. Today, more and more healthy options are arising that meet these guidelines, making the Nutritarian diet-style easier than ever before. And if you need to eat on the go, you will find a steadily growing number of food establishments that offer healthy, plant-based options.
~ Joel Fuhrman
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
~ Meryl Streep
Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
~ Richard Pryor
For some reason, my nose only itches when my hands are busy carrying stuff...
~ Unknown
Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
~ Antonin Scalia
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
~ Jose Marti
I think I needed boxing as an excuse, to be busy, 'cause if I wasn't busy I was getting into trouble.
~ Bugzy Malone