Idly Quotes
71 Idly quotes by 70 unique authors
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At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly…
— Billy Sunday
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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,…
— Virginia Woolf
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I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
— Annie Dillard
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Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found…
— Charles Darwin
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All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish…
— Charles Dickens
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For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of…
— Susan Cooper
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If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To…
— Yukio Mishima
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Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was,…
— Sylvia Plath
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
— Florence Nightingale
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Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over…
— Richelle Mead
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I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge.…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?" 'Cuz,…
— Christine Feehan
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I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back…
— Chetan Bhagat
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I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what…
— Erin Morgenstern
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I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I…
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our…
— Jan Brewer
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You'd think people had better things to gossip about, said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harrys legs and reading…
— JK Rowling
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I will not stand idly by while you abrogate my plans! You shall rue this day!... Well, go on, start ruing! -Stewie
— Family Guy
Who Wrote These Idly Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 71 Idly Quotes, led by these top contributors: