#idle

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #continue #darfur #genocidal #i

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#false #got #idle #imposition #lost

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#idle #just #know #never #poor

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#fortunately #idle #let us #remains #something

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#bill #could #discuss #duty #idle

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#delight #hour #i #idle #kiss

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#success #supernatural

Father Pierre, why did you stay on in this colonial Campari-land, where the clink of glasses mingles with the murmur of a million mosquitoes, where waterfalls and whiskey wash away the worries of a world-weary whicker, where gin and tonics jingle in a gyroscopic jubilee of something beginning with J? ↗

— Graham Chapman

#eric-idle #humor #monty-python #humor

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#idle-minds #idleness #suspicion #business

How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone? ↗

— Fiona Apple

#the-idler-wheel #love