Busily Engaged Quotes

#1. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

Enoch Powell

#2. I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. She found Nicholas busily engaged in making a penny spin on the dresser, for the amusement of three little children, who were clinging to him in a fearless manner. He, as well as they, was smiling at a good long spin;

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

Jeff Greenfield

#5. I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. But her mind was so busily engaged, that she did not always know when she was silent.

Jane Austen

#7. Namely, never interfere when your enemies are busily engaged in flagrant acts of self-destruction.

Joseph J. Ellis

#8. The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference.

Ardeth Greene Kapp

#9. All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.

David Mitchell

#10. A cloud, the exact color of the boy's hat and shaped like a turnip, had descended over the sun, and another, worse looking, crouched behind the car. Mr. Shiftlet felt that the rottenness of the world was about to engulf him.

Flannery O'Connor

#11. People in a process culture understand how the concept of an end-to-end business process provides value to clients and how their individual roles impact that value.

Peter Franz

#12. Every worm has his weak spot,' as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. I called on Dex first. 'Um, yes. We have this friend, Izzy Brannick? She's about your height, has your color hair, and she is a normal, sane-type person. And you, Crazy Lady, seem to have replaced her. Can we have Izzy back now please?

Rachel Hawkins

#14. I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#15. If you really want to know why atheists resent religion so much, try lying to someone for 10-20 years. If you don't have that kind of time, just ask my ex-wife.

Captain Perverto