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Quotes About Inactivity

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
~ Thomas Haliburton
Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.
~ Gene Perret
Bystanders In life you are either on the Side Lines or else in the Game. If you are on the Side Lines you are merely watching. You are inactive. You are contributing to your personal pleasure. If you are in the Game you are playing hard, you are getting pleasure and you are rendering Service. You will always get more pleasure out of the Game if you are a Player instead of a Bystander.
~ Napoleon Hill
It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.
~ Neal Shusterman
Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.
~ Neal Shusterman
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
~ Charles Bukowski
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens. Ferris
~ Charles Bukowski
It's difficult when you're not out there. I guess not playing for a while, you can definitely be a little moody.
~ George Kittle
If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.
~ Carson McCullers
C'era un'atmosfera da domenica sera, quando ci si sente fiacchi senza aver fatto nulla, invasi da un molle torpore, e i minuti scorrono più lenti che gli altri giorni.
~ Georges Simenon
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
~ William Shakespeare
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
~ Ugo Betti
Friends, I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
~ Don Marquis
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
~ James Russell Lowell
Nothin to do, Oh poo! Practically blue.
~ Jack Kerouac
Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
~ Tags: insomnia
What were you doing when you were eight, thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen? The answer is, I suspect: not very much.
~ Tash Aw
A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.
~ Jay Leno
When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
~ Landon Donovan
She seemed to represent a conscious choice between (1) a healthy, strong future of thriving and surviving and (2) a slothful existence of inactivity, illness, decline, and dependence.
~ Valerie Frankel
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
~ Victor Hugo
A masmorra escura. É o teu futuro. A preguiça, o prazer, que precipícios! Não fazer nada, é um lúgubre partido a tomar, sabes? Viver ocioso da substância social! Ser inútil, ou seja, nocivo! Isso conduz directamente ao fundo da miséria.
~ Victor Hugo
Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary lives.
~ Geraldine Brooks