Idly Quotes

71 quotes by 70 authors

...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
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next. — William Shakespeare
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against… — A B Simpson
Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice! — Robert Kiyosaki
Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey. Goof should struggle… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior.… — Ted Rall
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of… — Joseph Lancaster
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather,… — Julianna Baggott
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about… — Shirley Hazzard
I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side… — Nina Bawden
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will… — William Gilmore Simms
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning. — Mason Cooley
When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do. — Helen Gurley Brown

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