Quotes About Inactivity

When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.

Im like an iphone I just lose energy without doing anything

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Nothing ever happens to me.

He wasn't sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. It applied only to people who felt they had to be doing something all the time, which from what he'd observed was most people.

What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?' The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.

What was he doing? Reading a little, maybe. We can't even be sure of this. In fact, his biographers have to admit they don't know much at all, and that, judging from appearances - at least between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three - he did absolutely nothing.

Leggermente a disagio per questa confessione, Jean-Yves si voltò verso di me: "E tu, Michel, cosa conti di fare qui?". La risposta più vicina alla realtà era sicuramente qualcosa sul genere: "Niente", ma è sempre un po' difficile spiegare questo tipo di cose alle persone attive.

Just found my account after 2 years, what little impact I have made. In hindsight I didn't do much to push for change... but then again what did you do?

It might seem as if he's been sitting around eating M& M's and scratching his ass for the past few months.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Our society's drive for the "Great American Dream" has become a nightmare! It keeps many potential moral supporters lulled in a stupor of spiritual inactivity.

It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.

107] Comme on dirait un gobe-mouche, un désœuvré, un oisif, qui bat l'eau pour faire des ronds, qui fume pour faire quelque chose et ne fait autre emploi de ses dix doigts que de soutenir le tuyau de sa pipe de l'air du monde le plus préoccupé.

As unnatural actors, vampires represent freedom from activity - even, it seems, from sexuality.

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

Laziness is one of my best characteristics

They have trapped Blue into doing nothing, into being so inactive as to reduce his life to almost no life at all. Yes, says Blue to himself, that's what it feels like: like nothing at all. He feels like a man who has been condemned to sit in a room and go on reading a book for the rest of his life. This is strange enough - to be only half alive at best, seeing the world only through words, living only through the lives of others.

Any man who watches three games of football in a row should be declared legally dead." – Erma Bombeck

When I feel like exercising, I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.