Idling Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at… — Plato
Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods. — Bill Lipinski
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [NoÃ«l] France was the last bookseller who provided… — Jules de Goncourt
Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is… — William Lane Craig
Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear. — Bill Gothard
There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New… — Michelle Malkin
Idling is not my strong suit. — Cam Gigandet
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure… — Joshua Foer
What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As… — Tom Hodgkinson
My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions… — Tom Hodgkinson
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. — Jerome K. Jerome
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. — Brenda Ueland
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. — J. Maarten Troost
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed… — Upton Sinclair
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are… — Allan Bloom
A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge… — Janet Evanovich
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? — Lord Chesterfield
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary… — Leland Stanford

Who Wrote These Idling Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 21 Idling Quotes as follows: