A Quote by Jane Austen

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

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Busy Life Quick Seems Succession

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Jane Austen
British - Novelist
December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Mignon McLaughlin

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

Lorene Cary

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

Guy de Maupassant

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

Samuel Johnson

Football is business. It's all about being quick, quick, quick - nobody has any patience nowadays. But then again, that is how things are in normal life, away from football.

Jupp Heynckes

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I found out I got 'The Little Drummer Girl' and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn't expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It's been an overwhelming experience.

Florence Pugh

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Eric Hoffer

It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.

Monica Johnson

The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all you’re going to find is a man who didn’t care enough to call. Remember: Men are never too busy to get what they want.

Greg Behrendt

Tuna pasta bake is one of my favourites, its quick and easy to make when I'm busy training.

Ellie Simmonds

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.