Idly Quotes

71 Idly quotes by 70 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. — Roger Penrose
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To wait idly is the worst of conditions. — Robert Falcon Scott
All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters. — Jupiter Hammon
...we cannot stand idly by now, as the Nation is urged to embark on an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine, the end of which no… — Unknown Author
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death. — Wes Fesler
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington
Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly… — Zhuangzi

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