Quotes About Idly

My digestion is not mocked!" boomed the Russian. "Nor will I stand idly while Miss Larouche is insulted! You are banished, hedgehog! My digestion has spoken-BEGONE!

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

For a while he sat idly outside his door brooding in the spring sun. In The Lost Phoebe.

so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.

Oh, well, Mat said idly, she's just the Dragon Reborn's woman. (about Min)

sir, the nation is tense, said Cliff gravely. It is asking itself how it can possibly stand idly by drinking gourmet coffee when an entire race is about to be disassembled. It wants to Enjoy, yes, but it feels it won't be able to fully Enjoy until some other closure is reached.

They but appear a solemn People,— worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly.

examined her nails, picked idly at

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation

Dr. Stanpole's car was at the top of it, headlights on and motor running, empty. I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit.

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.