Quotes About Inactivity

I have met a lot of athletes who were on the top of their sport, and then sat around and did nothing. They just didn't know what to do.

I can't sit at one place for long in my own house, forget about 'Bigg Boss.' I have ants in my pants.

Somebody said that dirt is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities.

Other church leavers include those who remained in the church but simply became inactive. After many years of frustration and disappointment, realizing that the black-and-white presentations of the life of faith did not fit with their life experience, they quit—at least internally.

I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.

The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.

L'unica cosa più dolorosa dell'essere obliatori attivi è essere rammentatori inerti.

Who neither touched nor spoke? whose nape, whose finger-ends nervelessly lied the hours away?

As a culture, we really like our food passive.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

The place where no harm can come is the place where nothing at all can come.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

When I am not playing, I suffer.

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

This makes my boredom worse. It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all.

Singurul mod de a nu fi criticat niciodat? este s? nu faci nimic, dar chiar ?i atunci vei fi criticat c? e?ti lene? ?i nu faci nimic.

The most hopeless idleness is that most smoothed with excellent plans.

An idle genius is an oxymoron.

I hope the string and clapper arrangement he calls a mind has been permanently put out of action.

CLUN (n.) A leg which has gone to sleep and has to be hauled around after you.

He continued to lie there, like someone lying awake at four o'clock in the morning, unable to put his mind to rest, but unable to find anything to do with it.