Minding Mine Quotes

#1. Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

Frederick Lenz

#2. There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

Julia Glass

#3. But minding one's own business wasn't very interesting. Or useful.

Morgan Rhodes

#4. I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Mitch Hedberg

#5. It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

Bryce Courtenay

#6. The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own

Amit Abraham

#7. My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

Ray Charles

#8. I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

Kelly Brook

#9. Whoever is capable of not minding what others say, is a man on the path to wisdom

Paulo Coelho

#10. Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Sebastian Faulks

#11. There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It ... gives the brain a small vacation.

Diane Ackerman

#12. Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

Jasmine Guinness

#13. He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

#15. After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.

Dan Gediman

#16. There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

William S. Burroughs

#17. Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Ayelet Waldman

#18. I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story.

Dave Attell

#19. I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable ...

Ralph Ellison

#20. I thought about having a proper room,
breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

Jenny Valentine

#21. So how do you know Vampires aren't just some legend made up to scare little kids into minding their parents?"
Adam's voice was full of scorn. "Because you and I exist and we're descendants of Fate and Time.

April White

#22. I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

Miles Davis

#23. Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.

Carrie Fisher

#24. People now a days are in business of minding other's business.

Kartik Mehta

#25. The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding the store during the financial crisis and every one of them was asleep at the switch.

Carly Fiorina

#26. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Eric Hoffer

#27. The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

Robert Jordan

#28. The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Flann O'Brien

#29. But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?

Geraldine Jewsbury

#30. What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

E. M. Forster