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Idle Quotes

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Name Violence Lying Idle Boldness

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Life Youth My Life Idle Everything

There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.

Ideas World Rich Better Look Idle

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mind Waves Color Idle Break Watch

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

Parents Think Wish Idle Always Some

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Art Man Evil Idle Happens Much

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

Life Think You Nothing Idle Imagine

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Tatiana Maslany

Me Think Idle Hard Being I Think

I'm not very happy idle.

Happy Idle Very

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Eyes Green Questions Know Why Idle

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Reputation Lost Idle Without False

Idle time is the devil's play.

Time Devil Play Idle

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

Herbert A. Simon

Time Moment Process Human Idle

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Charles Dudley Warner

History Regret Long Idle Everything

The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.

Care Rules Idle Ability Line Rights

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Good Minds Idle Reason Conviction

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity Great Time Man Idle Who

'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.

G. Willow Wilson

Work Faith Worth Trouble Idle Well

The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.

Love Seeing Sharing Idle Economy

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

Man Strong Sleeping Belief Idle

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

William Wilberforce

Me Idle Pains Make Much Taken

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

Women Men Action Philosophy Idle

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau

Money Done Idle Anything Been Just

Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.

American Sometimes Idle Economy Out

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