Idly Quotes
71 quotes by 70 authors
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When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and…
— Gerry Adams
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping…
— George Arnold
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that,…
— Thomas Hobbes
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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our…
— Barack Obama
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Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
— Roger Penrose
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
— Tom Stoppard
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As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making…
— Henry Winkler
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One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.
— Robertson Davies
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We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of…
— John McCain
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Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
— Charles Lamb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with…
— Petrarch
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I…
— William Wordsworth
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I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it…
— Stephen Fry
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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and…
— Knut Hamsun
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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the…
— Adelaide Anne Procter
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To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
— Robert Falcon Scott
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All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
— Jupiter Hammon
Who Wrote These Idly Quotes
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