Quotes About Inactivity

To have a simple, untroubled faith, you must keep your spiritual innocence. That requires avoiding cynicism and criticism. This is the day of the cynics, the critics, and the pickle-suckers. Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes a catalyst that leads to failure. In the Church, it sows the seed of inactivity and finally apostasy.

Grief is a species of idleness.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually watching television and surfing the internet are really excellent practise for being dead.

All human beings were laid asleep—prone, horizontal, dumb.

Nothing seemed to be going on but the clocks, and they had such drowzy faces, such heavy lazy hands, and such cracked voices that they surely must have been too slow. The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

In this country ... men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

It's Saturday — should I just sit down and do nothing or lay down and do nothing?

A wrong person is not always wrong because of their wrong actions, often they are wrong because of no actions.

I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

You're Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Dol Ã¢â'¬Â¦ drums," wailed a voice that sounded far away.

The Doldrums, my young friend, are where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.

It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the still pool, not the running brook, that stagnates.

It's bad enough sitting in a car, never mind driving it.

She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow.

Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms.