Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us.… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely… — Edward Rutledge Copy Share Image
So, what we do as the game accesses the Blu-ray disc, is we take any data that was accessed and we put… — Mark Cerny Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody you know that always has idle time, run away, such a person can never be productive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness. — Horace Copy Share Image
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“My comments are often idle. I never can get them to do any solid work. Would that I could make my words… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image