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• We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.

  James Dobson

  Christian, Children, Giving

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• We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Encouragement, Hurt

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Spiritual, Christian Inspirational

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.124, SPCK

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• I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.

  Maggie Tabberer

  Women, Past, Thinking

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• People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

  Tim Vine

  Garden, Thinking, People

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• Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the US tax code, you'd find at least one sex scene. ("Yes, yes, YES!" moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture...)

  Dave Barry

  Sex, Law, Nerd

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• Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Humility, Looks, Sometimes

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• Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Buddhist, Flower

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• Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

  Jack Baker

  Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood

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• Every day we're given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Motivation, Opportunity, Given

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• The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

  Helen Vendler

  Artist, Disappear, Without A Trace

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• I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Jobs, Time Keeping, Living My Life

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively. At least I can’t.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Writing, Gestation Period, Suffering

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• Enduringly successful people, many of whom live a life that's a gift to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue-not because they had it masterfully handled, but because they were all busy doing what mattered to them.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Life, Successful, Issues

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.53, Pearson Education

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• Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Cities, Confusion

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.41

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• Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I.

  William Oldys

  Alcohol, Curiosity, Drink

  William Oldys, “On A Fly Drinking Out Of His Cup”

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• What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Use, Answers

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.39, Macmillan

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• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  Byron White

  Law, Choices, Morality

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• Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Mean, Faithful

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• Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Failure, Thinking, Care

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• Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Failure, Rope, Ends

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• Hebe's here, May is here!
  The air is fresh and sunny;
  And the miser-bees are busy
  Hoarding golden honey.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Air, Hoarding, May

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1882). “The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.

  Alexander Carmichael

  Summer, Song, Winter

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• I like girls that have a nice smile and nice eyes. I want to date a girl who understands my busy schedule and that I have to be on tour a lot. And she has to make me laugh!

  Austin Mahone

  Girl, Nice, Eye

  "6 Love Secrets From Fall's Hottest Guys!" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 30, 2013.

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• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Islands, Europe, Calming Effect

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