God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep… — Al-Ghazali 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
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of… — John C. Dvorak 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
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
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
We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image