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Quotes About Inactivity

I'm just really a lazy homebody.
~ Amy Brenneman
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.
~ Paul Zane Pilzer
Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.
~ George W. Bush
There is one thing dead people excel at. They're
~ Mary Roach
Nada más penoso para la mente humana que la calma absoluta de la inactividad y la certidumbre que se siguen tras una rápida serie de sucesos que han excitado los sentimientos, y despojan el alma de esperanzas y de temores a un mismo tiempo.
~ Mary Shelley
The Council of American Builders met once a month and engaged in no tangible activity beyond listening to speeches and sipping an inferior brand of root beer. Its membership did not grow fast in quantity or quality. There were no concrete results achieved.
~ Ayn Rand
abeyance. "Is there
~ Ayn Rand
For every living species, growth is a necessity of survival. Life is motion, a process of self-sustaining action that an organism must carry on in order to remain in existence. This principle is equally evident in the simple energy-conversions of a plant and in the long-range, complex activities of man. Biologically, inactivity is death.
~ Ayn Rand
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
There's little good in sedentary small towns. Mostly indifference spiced with an occasional vapid evil – or worse, a conscious one.
~ Stephen King
Se puede ser miembro activo de una Iglesia, pero inactivo en la práctica de su evangelio.
~ Stephen R. Covey
You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
~ Stephen R. Covey
It is amazing how much your brain races when you literally have nothing to do.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
Asociada con su búskomorság, la pereza le estaba prohibida.
~ Jorge Volpi
Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far." —JODI PICOULT1
~ Joseph LeDoux
I am capable of being idle.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
~ Tatiana Maslany
You find you have a lot of friends when you are rich and idle.
~ Richard Coles
I'm incredibly lazy!
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
~ bierce ambrose iii
What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.
~ Obert Skye
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
~ Sir James Mackintosh