Quotes of Preoccupied - somelinesforyou

“ To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. ”

- Robert Copeland

“ Presents, I often say, endear absents. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true. ”

- Tony Arata

“ Achilles absent was Achilles still! ”

- Homer

“ The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare. ”

- H.F. Hedge

“ The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ He that fears you present will hate you absent. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ And so, his senses gradually wrapt In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds, And dreaming hears thee still, O singing lark; That singest like an angel in the clouds. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth. ”

- Umberto Eco

“ You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Dreaming only makes reality seem worse! ”

- John Lennon

“ I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. ”

- Bill Russell

“ I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ I'm dreaming of a white ChristmasJust like the ones I used to know.Where the treetops glisten,And children listenTo hear sleigh bells in the snow.I'm dreaming of a white ChristmasWith every Christmas card I write. May your days be merry and bright.And may all your Christmases be white. ”

- Irving Berlin

“ The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat… ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. ”

- Marianne Williamson

“ Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them. ”

- Unknown

“ I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing. ”

- Marguerite Young

“ Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ Lost time is never found again. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Greater things are believed of those who are absent. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ Not all those who wander are lost. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ”

- Eugene O’Neill
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