Doing Nothing Quotes

335 quotes by 290 authors

They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them. — Jean Genet
Doing nothing, badly. — Graham Greene
Are you suggesting Iâ€™m not normal? (Nykyrian) Oh yeah, baby, you ooze normality. From the top of that assassinâ€™s braid to the tip of those… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly… — Ken Follett
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood
the beauty of doing nothing — Elizabeth Gilbert
The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing. — John le Carre
Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing. — George MacDonald
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At… — Philip Pullman
She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing. — Tim Bowler
But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around… — Sarah Addison Allen
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went… — Terry Pratchett
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was… — Norton Juster
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging… — Elizabeth von Arnim
We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will… — Cory Doctorow
I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I… — Philip Larkin
Uh, what are you doing?â€ â€œNothing much. Just erasing all of Calindaâ€™s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out… — Jennifer Estep
Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it. — Steven Morrissey
The only alternative seems to be doing nothingâ€¦and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything — Cassandra Clare

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