Top 100 They Are Busy Quotes
#1. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.
Harold S. Kushner
#2. In the race of life, some win and some loose those who win think they are busy and those who loose remain free.
Santosh Kalwar
#3. Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
Aristophanes
#5. Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
Anne Sexton
#6. The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let's exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith - an eternal home for the soul.
Billy Graham
#7. I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.
Harold S. Kushner
#8. I don't really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I'm not stuck all the time hanging out.
Ryan Sheckler
#9. The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don't grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read and trust their Bibles.
Max Lucado
#10. I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
Shonda Rhimes
#11. The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#12. Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm
#13. The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.
Neal A. Maxwell
#14. You disapprove," she commented. "Because I'm a girl?" "No." The voice paused. "Females are often the best hunters. They must provide for the young and survive when the males are too busy posturing to do so. But this is not the way with humans." "Humans?
Meagan Spooner
#15. The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven't the time or energy to keep score.
Studs Terkel
#16. The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.
George Mikes
#17. Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.
Jacques Barzun
#18. Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.
Frances Mayes
#19. My parents' names are Rebecca and Jeremiah, by the way," he whispered as I approached him.
I laughed, jittery. "Got it. So even though they'll be too busy screaming at you, and they can't hear me anyway, I'll at least be able to address them properly?
Tara Hudson
#20. I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
Banana Yoshimoto
#21. People are so busy trying to do the right thing that they forget to Live. This robs away all the Excitement life has to offer. Do the right thing , but also Live!
R.v.m.
#22. Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.
Dale Carnegie
#23. Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
Vernon Law
#24. Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#25. It is safe to say that the majority of evangelical churches today are busy teaching their flock how to be better goats, but they are not preaching Bible-centered messages that grow religious affections.
Todd Friel
#26. There are some people that don't take jobs because they think that they're too good for them or that they aspire to do something greater than the job that they're being presented with. I've just never been from that school.
Busy Philipps
#27. In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Anita Brookner
#28. Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.
Gene Simmons
#29. There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy - they've so cluttered up their lives - they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, I love you.
Mike Yaconelli
#30. crashes are not randomly occurring lightning bolts; they are the consequence of the madness of crowds who are busy avoiding the last mania as they participate in what will turn out to be the current one.
Emanuel Derman
#31. They are not ducks, they are prayers of Truth, which the world cannot hear because it is too busy listening to its own voice.
Miranda Moondawn
#32. People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another) ... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Harper Lee
#34. Those that are meant to be in your life won't degrade you, judge you, or talk about you, because they're too busy loving you and uplifting you. If you put your faith in fickle opinions you'll never be good enough. Focus on God's truth and purpose for your life and you'll find your perfect self
Trent Shelton
#35. There aren't many kids today as good as you are. Kids today are selfish; they don't think of others. They're too busy listening to devil music on their eight-track players to think of anyone else.
K. Martin Beckner
#36. They said we are different. but I Said we are same because we all are busy to blaming others for our sins!
Sid
#37. Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.
Lawrence W. Reed
#38. Wasn't crying. I've had a bad day. Another one. One in a series of bad days. I'm not complaining. Bad days are my bag. They're time-consuming, however, and I'm a busy girl.
Tom Robbins
#39. Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don't care how busy they are.
Gisele Bundchen
#40. Love is listening when they are ready to talk
midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.
Sharon G. Larsen
#41. And I like people. I like to know what you're really up to. I'm a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?
Tom Hardy
#42. We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#43. Yes, people are busy every day creating new karma for themselves. The reason is they overreact to every slight ... Grace and respect are two signs of a mature spiritual individual, whatever his religion or belief.
Harold Klemp
#44. Some people are so busy doing 'nothing'. They don't have time for anyone.
Lovely Goyal
#45. Many struggling students who genuinely want to learn fall behind instead. Others are so busy that they miss out on key concepts. Still others learn how to "play school," but never really learn important objectives in their courses.
Aaron Sams
#46. Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of
disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and
still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
Susanna Kaysen
#47. Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.
Wayne Dyer
#48. (Success is about a happy life, and a happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people do not allow the happy moments because they are so busy trying to get a happy life.)
Esther Hicks
#49. Many are busy looking for a life partner and they lose touch of their life's purpose.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#51. What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.
Mario Puzo
#52. Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.
Marcus Samuelsson
#53. Lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing called the anchorites of daily life, who return unhappy to their solitary rooms.
Peter Ackroyd
#54. People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
Robert A. Heinlein
#55. Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard
#56. Churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.
Stephen R. Covey
#57. Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
Marya Mannes
#58. There are far too many beautiful women in the world out there who don't get how attractive they are simply because stupid men are too busy being too intimidated to talk to them. Lucky for my girl, I'm a cocky son of a bitch. - Jonathan di Luca
R. Matthews
#59. In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,
if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,
and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.
Henry David Thoreau
#60. The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
Louis Kronenberger
#61. I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
Drake Bell
#62. Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox
#63. I wondered how many things people missed when they were busy talking too much. "Are
Brittainy C. Cherry
#64. I like to see candidates who are busy finding what they are good at and what they enjoy. I call it being busy with a purpose - WHIM
Garrett Miller
#65. As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
Garth Ennis
#66. My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything.
Garrison Keillor
#67. People are busy creating families, building businesses, working from morning until night but they don't know what it is to live a full life
Sunday Adelaja
#68. Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.
Kathleen Winsor
#69. Sometimes, when you are busy and children ask funny questions, you don't think so much. You just answer quickly so they will leave you alone. If you don't answer, they will just keep asking or they will go and do something very bad.
Jinat Rehana Begum
#70. Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better
John Wooden
#71. If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
Marie Dressler
#72. They're important but we're ignoring a lot of other parts that are probably just as compliment-worthy and sexy because we're too busy complimenting firm pecs and thin waists and untarnished souls. Branch out a little, is all I'm saying. It couldn't hurt. I bet your small intestines are adorable.
Jenny Lawson
#73. But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.
Esme Raji Codell
#74. Men are busy dying from the moment they're born but it's a crawl from the cradle to the grave.
Mark Lawrence
#75. One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.
John Ruskin
#76. It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love
Nancy E. Turner
#77. It's not that people are mean or cruel, they're just busy.
Austin Kleon
#78. People of that sort seldom fall ill; they are too busy pretending to be ill.
Elizabeth Peters
#79. Sometimes, Casey, people spend their whole lives living for a dream they can't have. And these people are so busy, so greedy for their dream that they forget all the good things they already have.
Sarah Rubin
#80. There are just some kind of men ... who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.
Harper Lee
#81. Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
William Faulkner
#82. Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.
Joel Miller
#83. Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.
Alexandra Robbins
#84. I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.
Nellie L. McClung
#85. Mom has a super busy day planned maybe pick another day, Sundays are great as they can be a little more chilled
Anthony Sievers
#86. So many people are so busy being busy that they don't spend time on the foundation of their life.
Jairek Robbins
#87. ...Fei Xiaoton, the University of Chicago - trained Chinese sociologist, once observed, this nation is "a land without ghosts," a place where people are so busy with promises of progress that they have forgotten where they come from and who their ancestors were...
John Kuo Wei Tchen
#88. Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.
Rebecca Eaton
#89. I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.
Woody Allen
#90. Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.
Suzy Kassem
#91. Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.
Lauren Mackler
#92. If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.
Danny Meyer
#93. Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Salma Hayek
#94. I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.
Mark Slouka
#95. People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.
Andrea Corr
#96. These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.
Brenda Ueland
#97. There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#98. The third major lesson in life is this: learn how to nourish and protect your crops all summer. Sure enough, as soon as you've planted, the busy bugs and noxious weeds are out to take things over. And here is the next bit of truth: they will take it, unless you prevent it. There
Jim Rohn
#99. 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
#100. Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.
Barack Obama
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