“One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!” WayKindNextMonthsOne DayBusyNext Day Author:Condola Rashad
“I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. ... If there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be.” IfsYearsMadeWaitingJourneyHairGoes OnOne DayLettersBusyStartingGrassGrayMailboxes Author:Alice Munro
“one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was” LittlesFacesDeathSidesOne DayKissingDiedBusyFolksBuriedBurial Book:100 Selected Poems Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.” IfsPleaseOne DayCostDeserveBlameBusyDearRudeTrifles Book:The Practice of the Presence of God Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“When we started out, we didn't really think that the era of great opportunity would end one day. We were much too busy developing our companies. But in today's China you can build a city, even a mega-city like Beijing or Shanghai, within 10 or 15 years. And then you are done. So in real estate development, the Gründerzeit is over. But that is not the case in other sectors.” ThinkingYearsRealEndsDoneTodayOpportunityCitiesCompanyCasesDevelopmentOne DayBusyChinaDevelopingErasEstatesToo BusyGreat OpportunityBeijingMegaShanghai Author:Zhang Xin
“Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.” PeopleLooksSometimesWholeBitsPiecesOne DayAddDancingBusyHolesDelivering Author:Mary E. Pearson
“Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?” IfsShouldLooksLittlesSaidDiesGoneTreeMinutesSonOne DayBusyBossMy SonVillageGrandfatherBentNinetyAlmonds Book:Zorba the Greek Source: Zorba the Greek