Idle Quotes
Thoughts on standing still.
These quotes explore idleness from a few different angles, including being raised toward laziness rather than diligence and the old warning that unused time invites trouble. For a related mood, see the Pause quotes page.
Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Emotion Quotes
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Inactivity Quotes
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
Pause Quotes
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
Potential Quotes
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.
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Other lines here dismiss certain ideas as merely "idle fancies," using the word to mean empty or unfounded rather than simply inactive. Readers interested in stillness or untapped ability may also like Inactivity and Potential quotes.
