Idle Quotes - Page 8

• Busy opinion is an idle fool.

  John Ford

  Fool, Opinion, Busy

  1633 ' Tis Pity She's a Whore, act 5, sc.3.

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• The idle brain is the devil's playground.

  Eric Lange

  Brain, Devil, Playgrounds

  "Eric Lange from FX's hit show The Bridge". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

  Robert Breault

  Men, People, Way

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• The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Attitude, Quality

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• These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Action, Speculation

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• Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.

  Chandra Wilson

  Mom, Friday, Monday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.

  Theognis of Megara

  Revenge, Anger, Passion

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• I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

  Alan Dershowitz

  School, Needs, Taught

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• There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Long, Interesting

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.48, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

  Waylon Jennings

  Mean, Eagles, Rumor

  Song: The Eagle, Album: The Eagle, 1990

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• Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

  Adam Kinzinger

  Party, Illinois, New Day

  "Kinzinger topples Manzullo in Illinois" by Alex Isenstadt and David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.

  Augustus William Hare

  Wise, Light, Useless

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• Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, while the dolphins just played all day. The dolphins thought they were smarter for the same reason.

  Gershon Legman

  Men, Two, Dolphins

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• Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Art, Philosophy, Ambition

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• If I could tell the world just one thing
  It would be that we're all OK
  And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
  And useless in times like these
  I won't be made useless
  I won't be idle with despair
  I will gather myself around my faith
  For light does the darkness most fear
  
  My hands are small, I know
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  And I am never broken

  Jewel

  Love, Light, Times Like These

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• It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

  William Ernest Henley

  Artist, Confusion, Raw Materials

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “The Works of William Ernest Henley: Views and reviews”

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• There was a moment when I was getting death threats and bullshit via the Internet, so I was being a little more conscious and reading local message boards before going to certain towns, just to see if people were making bullshit idle threats on the Internet.

  Jay Reatard

  Reading, People, Bullshit

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

  John Darnielle

  Should, Settings, Setting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Laziness, Idleness

  Samuel Johnson (1826). “The Rambler (1750-'52) a. the Idler (1758-'60)”

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• The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work. This is all hailed as a great success, and it is a great success - for a very small sector of the population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, People, Together

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• An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Brain, Devil

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• Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

  Armand Hammer

  Work, Past, Elderly

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Night, Goes On, Moments

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

  Augustus William Hare

  God, World, Certain

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169

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• It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Struggle, Use

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