Busy Quotes - Page 31

• Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.

  John Bowring

  God, Moving, Men

  Sir John Bowring, lady Deborah Castle Bowring (1873). “A Memorial Volume of Sacred Poetry”, p.109

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• Riches do not make one rich but busy.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Riches, Rich

  "La Celestina". Play by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

  Stefan Zweig

  Hands, Gossip, Tongue

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.

  Ian Anderson

  Father, Gun, Games

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• What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Meaningful, Stress, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.

  Cory Trepanier

  Moving, Eye, Light

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• I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

  Shirley Bassey

  Energy, Too Busy, Performances

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• The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Fate, Rivers

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

  Edith Sitwell

  Brother, Dust, World

  "The Poet's Vision". 1959.

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• The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Stars, Past

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1949). “The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949”

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• Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Mean, Awards

  Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.12

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• Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.

  Allan Bloom

  Prayer, Ephemeral, Daily Life

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Home, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cancer, Weather, Space

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• Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hero, Guy, Environment

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, "Eye Appeal", p. 79-80, 1951.

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• A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

  Malcolm X

  Wall, Hate, Singing

  "Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Years, Secret, Tragedy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business, it soon deserted me, for I was busy writing poetry, and could not attend to law, and my clients, though they had great respect for my talents, had no faith in a poetical attorney.

  Washington Irving

  Father, Writing, Blessing

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Travel Sketches and Memoirs of Washington Irving: Tales of The Alhambra, Abbotsford and Newstead Abby, A Tour on the Prairies & Tales of a Traveler: Autobiographical Writings, Travel Reports, Essays and Notes of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and Old Christmas”, p.539, e-artnow

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• I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Pain, Heart, Cities

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.601, Delphi Classics

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• Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sleep, Soul, Slumber

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.467

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• Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Littles, Little Things

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

  George Saintsbury

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day" by George Saintsbury, the first US edition; New York: Dodd, Meads, (Vol. 1, pp. 4-5), (1900-04).

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• If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

  George Ade

  Work, Mean, Destiny

  George Ade (1904). “True bills”

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• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  Barack Obama

  Laughter, Sitting, Want

  "Barack Obama, remarks at University of Michigan". www.politico.com. May 1, 2010.

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• Busy opinion is an idle fool.

  John Ford

  Fool, Opinion, Idle

  1633 ' Tis Pity She's a Whore, act 5, sc.3.

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