Lazy Quotes - Page 21

• Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

  Herman Melville

  Compassion, Land, Sailor

  Herman Melville (1850). “Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, During a Four Months' Residence in the Valley of the Marquesas”

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• The dreary flies, lazy and casual,
  Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall.
  O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould
  Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.

  Allen Tate

  Wall, Heart, Spiders

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

  Alison Elliott

  Feel Good, Acting, Wells

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• I am not lazy.
  I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
  I am, each day,
  typing out the God
  my typewriter believes in.

  Anne Sexton

  Believe, Typewriters, Poetry

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.

  Ishmael Reed

  Fall, Race, Ideas

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  Andrew Weil

  Hurt, Real, Technology

  "What’s Wrong With American Medicine?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

  Gwen Moore

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  "State Waivers for TANF Can Provide True Pathway Out of Poverty" by Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  Michael Caine

  Editors, Trying, Scripts

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• It's been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I've found this to be very true in my own life. If I'm lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.

  Steve Pavlina

  Wake Up, Firsts, Action

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• Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
  What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
  The lazy time if not with some delight?

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Dancer, Delight

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

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• The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Humorous, Men

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• Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

  Joe Bastianich

  Hate, Different, Three

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• In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

  Kid Cudi

  New York, America, People

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• I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

  Peter MacKay

  Stupid, Canada, Treacherous

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• The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.

  Joan Didion

  Mean, Thinking, Practice

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 25, 2011

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• Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

  Karl Marx

  California, Magnificent, Knows

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• I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

  Gillian Flynn

  Fashion, Stupid, Thinking

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.222, Crown

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• I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

  Liev Schreiber

  Actors, Characteristics, Persons

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• I like to act. I guess letting what you love be what you do is key. I've worked very hard for that to be the case, probably because I'm very lazy and I only want to do things that are fun and I run away from anything that feels like work... Acting for me is like lunch at school - you're just in a playground where you get to pretend and play.

  Dichen Lachman

  Running, Fun, School

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

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• There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

  William Barclay

  Trouble, Danger, Stores

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• I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Laziness, Asks

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• There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Writing, Idlers, Bones

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• Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

  J. G. Holland

  Humanity, Laziness

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• Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found - although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?

  Maria W. Stewart

  Class, Racism, People

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• Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves.

  Damon Dash

  Jobs, Lazy People, Want

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