All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of. — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work. — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“I don't believe anything's really inevitable until it happens. We just call it inevitable to make ourselves feel better about it, to… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful,… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to… — Austin Mahone Copy Share Image
The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
So the first thing to be remembered: don't confine creativity to anything in particular. A man is creative - and if he… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act.… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the… — Jane Garmey Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
