As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
Jan Schakowsky
IdleSitCannotContinueSudanJew
My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.
Esha Gupta
LoveDayLongIdleOverLong Day
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.
Bill Budge
SomeoneKnowSittingIdleKeyboard
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
LifeLongToo MuchIdlePassMust
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
SilenceIdleMustWordEvery
The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
Mal Peet
BetterNothingHumanIdleNeedVery
I didn't ever imagine, except in the most idle, obviously wish-fulfillment, ego-gratification fantasies, that anything I wrote would ever win awards, let alone so many.
Ann Leckie
AloneWinAwardsIdleAnythingMost
The idle always have a mind to do something.
Luc de Clapiers
MindIdleAlwaysSomething
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
Thomas Dekker
TreeManStandIdleUniversalStill
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson
CuriosityRealizeIdleRareFail
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
Evo Morales
LieLawAmericaMoralThreeIdle
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'
Bill Bryson
TimeReadingYouNewIdleClub
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
ManCarePovertyHidePoorIdle
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot
PeopleMeetingNothingMoreIdle
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
J. Paul Getty
NostalgiaIdleSpeculationOften
I hate being idle - there are still so many things I want to do.
Angela Bowie
HateWantIdleThingsBeingStill
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
IntelligenceBetterPowerfulIdle
It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.
Timothy Morton
IdleEasierThanPaulEric
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
IdleAlwaysSomethingUsRemains
As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.
Eliyahu Goldratt
TimeActionStandYouGoIdle
I am capable of being idle.
Alexander McCall Smith
I AmIdleCapableBeingAm
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
Nick Cave
TimeLuxuryFeelingsWayIdleSeem
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
Harlan Coben
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