“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Variant: Either get busy living or get busy dying
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
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“If you're not busy living, you're dying.”
Source: American Assassin
“The government should be getting out of the business of being in business.”
Source: As quoted in "The best quotes from Ralph Klein’s colourful public life" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-best-quotes-from-ralph-kleins-colourful-public-life/article10577310/, The Globe and Mail
“I was too busy to oblige them by dying just now.”
If This Goes On— (p. 412)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Economics, Peace and Laughter (1971), p. 50
“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
“When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.”
Alesha Dixon cited in Exclusive Interview with: Alesha Dixon http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/the-ticket/2009/05/exclusive-interview-with-alesh.html" at blog.mirror.co.uk, 8 May 2009
Variant: Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war," he said.
-Baron Arald
Source: The Burning Bridge