Lazy Quotes - Page 27

• As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Freedom, Thinking, Government

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• Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Broken, Rules And Regulations, Laziness

  "MacArthur Close-Up". Book by William Addleman Ganoe, 1962.

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• To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Exercise, Power

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• How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Lawyer, Laughed

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1431, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Thinking, Learning Something New

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• I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Ideas, Alcohol

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• The bagger is the technique of lazy.

  Daniele Bagnoli

  Volleyball, Technique, Bagger

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• Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Black, Arrogant

  "Fashion's Poet of Black : YAMAMOTO" by Suzy Menkes, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2000.

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• I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• Identify the problem.”)
  I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.

  Shoma Morita

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Imperfect Person

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• You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Educational, Competition

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• Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

  Norman Lear

  Dad, Kids, Race

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

  Taiye Selasi

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

  Primo Levi

  Stupid, Heart, Brain

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• Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kids, People, Creative

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• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  Kajol

  Selfish, Book, Reading

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• Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

  Malalai Joya

  Rights, Easy, Careless

  Malalai Joya (2009). “A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

  Benji Durden

  Littles, Runners, Streaks

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• Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Law, Lazy People, World

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• The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Wind, Sea

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• I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

  John Marsden

  Attitude, Selfish, War

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

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• Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Class, Giving, Charity

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2006). “Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Book, Men, Yield

  Matthew Henry, J. Gill, Arthur W. Pink (2001). “Exposition of I and II Samuel”, p.197, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

  William Booth

  Passion, Men, Vices

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