Top 100 So Busy Quotes
#1. There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
Agatha Christie
#2. You said that you would've taken back that day if you were given a chance. But I ask you why? All things happen for a reason, right? We don't understand the details of our lives because we're so busy living day to day. We need to take a few steps back and take the whole picture in.
Amy Astorga
#3. People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.
Andrea Corr
#4. We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
Stephen Covey
#5. He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.
J.K. Rowling
#6. Another funny thing about living in this city is how easy it can be to lose track of people. We're all so busy, always rushing around, so wrapped up in our own stuff. It stops occurring to us to check in with friends. I mean REALLY check in with them.
Ryan Kelly
#7. I was so busy building my life only to wake and discover it was over
Hanya Yanagihara
#8. Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.
George Eliot
#9. Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy ... But our task is the opposite of distraction ... how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.
Henri Nouwen
#10. She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas.
Lori Copeland
#11. I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
Orson Welles
#12. One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.
Deborah Day
#13. The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
Jessica Valenti
#14. Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
Doris Lilly
#15. I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.
Andre Rieu
#16. We live in very busy times. All of us have much to do. However, we should ask ourselves often what is it that we are so busy doing?
Randall Wright
#17. The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
Derek Jarman
#18. When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
William J.H. Boetcker
#19. While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,
many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.
Toba Beta
#20. They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.
Christopher Pike
#21. People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.
Terry Pratchett
#22. You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#23. People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
Robert Redford
#24. The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they're just determined to chase impossible things. And most of them are so busy looking at the horizon that they can't even see what's right in front of them.
Morgan Matson
#25. It was kind of weird because eventually they were all so busy hating each other, they forgot about hating me.
Jennifer Brown
#26. You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.
Scotty McCreery
#27. Jackson is so busy following the rules and doing everything he thinks he's supposed to do that he doesn't really ever live.
Sierra Avalon
#28. He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
Alexandra Bracken
#29. Now our kids must have the qualities of both an old aristocrat and a modern technocrat. No wonder they're so busy, and so frantic.
William Deresiewicz
#30. Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
Mitch Albom
#31. Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to sharpen the saw.
Stephen Covey
#32. Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
Agnes Repplier
#33. I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!
Brianna Brown
#34. And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?
Spencer W. Kimball
#35. I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#36. People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Florence King
#37. Life is always so full. Getting and spending we lay waste to our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do?
Alice Munro
#38. She'd been so busy worrying about soldier boys and villagers she'd forgotten the jungle had hunters of its own, and now she was going to die for it.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#39. Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#40. Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.
Dale Carnegie
#41. Writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
Edna Ferber
#42. The mommy-porn genre currently sweeping the book industry and the Babylonian excess of most television shows probably fall within the historical norm in our culture's sleaze index and are not omens of the imminent collapse of civilization, though if I were not so busy, I might start building an ark.
Dean Koontz
#43. It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation.
Patricia Briggs
#44. The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don't get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.
Joel Osteen
#45. All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.
Jon McGregor
#46. Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.
Alia Shawkat
#47. I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.
Andrea Bocelli
#48. - I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do ... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
Robert A. Heinlein
#49. Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
Annie Lennox
#50. When you're an actor, you're so busy: people are always coming up to you and pulling your collar, making sure that things fit, brushing your hair and you're always being yanked up, so finally when you're behind a camera, you're just a slob.
Clint Eastwood
#51. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
Alice Hoffman
#53. Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate,regret or fear.
Karen Salmansohn
#54. I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life?
Kate McCafferty
#55. A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference.
Gil Scott-Heron
#56. I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#57. We are so busy trying to make a better TOMORROW that we forget to make the best of TODAY.-RVM
R.v.m.
#58. Hey, Eriele?" he said. "You know what's funny?... You're so busy yelling at Ian," Dan said, "you didn't notice our altitude. Time to change the gas mixture.
C. Alexander London
#59. I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.
Janet Evanovich
#60. But she'd forgotten. She'd forgotten because she'd been so busy thinking of her own fucking feelings. As if she fucking mattered.
Stacia Kane
#61. I was so busy trying not to break Rachel's heart that I didn't see it shatter. I've been walking on the pieces for months, grinding them into fucking dust.
Kit Rocha
#62. You're so busy taking care of everyone else, you can't see that someone needs to take care of you. So tell me what you need, and I'll be that for you.
Rebecca Yarros
#63. It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#64. We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.
Franklin Graham
#65. The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
Sue Grafton
#66. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
Lorene Cary
#67. I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.
Maggie Tabberer
#68. Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.
Ryan Lilly
#69. Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
Rachel Roy
#70. Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time ... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'
Harold B. Lee
#71. Let us not become so busy making a living that we forget to enjoy our Life. Every day of Life is meant to be Lived and Enjoyed.-RVM
R.v.m.
#72. We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
Confucius
#73. You're all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don't look around to see that the forest is on fire.
John Scalzi
#74. People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.
Harold S. Kushner
#75. You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.
Gayle Forman
#76. Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
Joni Mitchell
#78. During that year Scarlett had been so busy, had experienced such changes in her life, that she'd been able to block out the pain he had caused her. Now it tore her heart, and with the pain was a deep fear of Rhett's unpredictable power. She transformed them into rage. Rage was strengthening.
Alexandra Ripley
#79. Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
Adam Young
#80. It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.
David Sedaris
#81. If you hadn't been so busy stressing about what people think of you, you would have noticed all of this.
Allyson Valentine
#82. Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens
#83. Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like going camping with my kids. I have two daughters; they're 7 and 10 years old.
Mark Kelly
#84. We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don't even notice the most important things slipping away.
Kevin DeYoung
#85. There's no time to be bored. I'm so busy doing the horse dance.
Psy
#86. Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.
Hal Elrod
#87. Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.
Francine Rivers
#88. We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
Patrick Stump
#89. Life is so fleeting. I am so busy enjoying it that I have no time to get angry.
Debasish Mridha
#90. This world is too fast and the people are so busy they may never get the time to stop and admire you when they pass you by; and I'm afraid this will slowly make you forget how very beautiful you are. Never forget that, love. You're an angel. The most beautiful of all angels.
Adwitiya Borah
#91. Deprecatingly, fully conscious of his audacity in asking so busy a man to waste his time on a neophyte's puny effort, he begged for criticism and guidance.
W. Somerset Maugham
#92. I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.
Lorraine Bracco
#93. We've been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don't. There's no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. There's only life. And whether you honor it or ignore it. It's ironic, but in trying to find God we've been ignoring life.
Trevor D. Richardson
#94. Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.
Steve C. Roberts
#95. I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.
Will Rogers
#96. I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.
Tracy Morgan
#97. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
#98. The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Some people are so busy with life that they just forget to live.-RVM
R.v.m.
#100. You're like the sun-completely blind to your own beauty because you are so busy making everyone around you shine. No matter how far we hide in the shadows, you share your light. That's how you stole my heart when no one else could find it.
Lexi Ryan
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