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Quotes About Inactivity

We were just about to do nothing at all for a while but it can wait.
~ Douglas Adams
At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
O trabalho foi aquilo que o homem achou de melhor para nada fazer da sua vida.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.
~ Daniel J. Evans
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
~ Renata Adler
Giselle would rouse herself from her torpor occasionally (she moved like a particularly lazy cat) in order to despise something.
~ Kate Atkinson
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.
~ Roger L'Estrange
Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.
~ Warren Buffett
Human nature is above all things lazy.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.
~ Wayne Dyer
Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.
~ Stefan Molyneux
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
~ William White law
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.
~ Robert E. Lee
Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.
~ Wayne Chirisa
The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
~ Mark Steyn
Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
~ Rose Kennedy
my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.
~ Tim Vine
You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.
~ Will Rogers
Or is there something that you "should" be doing but are not doing it? Get up and do it now. Alternatively, completely accept your inactivity, laziness, or passivity at this moment, if that is your choice. Go into it fully. Enjoy it. Be as lazy or inactive as you can. If you go into it fully and consciously, you will soon come out of it. Or maybe you won't. Either way, there is no inner conflict, no resistance, no negativity.
~ Eckhart Tolle
They delight in sloth, they detest tranquility.
~ Edward Gibbon
P?rea s?-l considere tot mai mult pe Sergio un soi de pierde-var? din categoria trist? È™i inert?, un intelectual adic?, iar de data asta Sergio nu putea spune c? nu are dreptate, era într-adev?r un intelectual din cea mai rea spe??, credea, un om a c?rui inteligen?? nu avea nimic creativ, nici util, ci servea doar ca s?-l îmboln?veasc? È™i s?-l paralizeze ca o otrav? rafinat?.
~ Alberto Moravia