Busying Quotes

#1. Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery.

Martin Cosgrove

#2. I study the titles in Dr. Stayner's library, busying myself so I don't have to look at the fat lip I gave him after yesterday's group session. It complements the black eye I gave him in last week's session.

K.A. Tucker

#3. Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

Gorgias

#4. Busying herself with inconsequential tasks.

John Edward Williams

#5. Whoever says adults are better at paying attention than children is wrong: we're too busying filtering out the world, focusing on some task or another, paying no attention. Our kids are the ones discovering new contents all day long.

Anthony Doerr

#6. We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves.

Thomas A Kempis

#7. For its own well-being, the intellect should be doing what you condemn; that is, it should avoid busying itself with particular knowledge, for it cannot reach God through this knowledge, which would rather hinder it in its advance toward him.

San Juan De La Cruz

#8. Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Paul Valery

#9. Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#10. Just by listening without looking I can tell you is it a white man singing or black.... as far as now is easy!

Deyth Banger

#11. Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!

Hafez

#12. Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

Rand Paul

#13. The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.

Katie Price

#14. And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

Edgar Pangborn

#15. The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

Jordan Wolfson

#16. Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. Maybe love is something we're meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns.

Jen Glantz

#18. It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

John Steinbeck

#19. If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

Neal Stephenson

#20. I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde

#21. I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

Sylvia Plath

#22. I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

Prince