Quotes About Idle

great sport, during their few idle hours, of sitting in the house's green-shuttered windows and watching the doings at headquarters through opera glasses, then offering commentary to passing police officials.

What that graph says is that everyone needs idle time, or slack time. If no one has slack time, wip gets stuck in the system. Or more specifically, stuck in queues, just waiting.

I let my summer days pass idly on.

Extreme continuing unhappiness often consoles itself with images of death which may in a sense be idle, but which can play a vital part in consolation and also in the continuance of illusion. If that happens I am dead, consoles, and also dulls the edge of speculation and even of conscience. It is another way of saying, to me that cannot happen.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

He is idle that might be better employed.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

Turning your engine off while sitting in your car is not only a no brainer, but it can also lead to peace on earth... in my neighborhood, anyway.

The Isle of Unemployed Bureaucrats

Environmental advocates say that changing how much power computers and monitors use in idle mode can cut greenhouse gas emissions without requiring consumers to change their behavior.

They would sooner be dicing, drinking, and flicking, I don't doubt, but Lord Randyll believes in putting idle men to work.

They laboriously do nothing.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Rip van Winkle was lazy.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire.

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough(72).

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly;

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

You have a decent brain, you just keep it in mothballs all the time." "You

She looked hot enough to catch fire, but too lazy to do anything but just lie there and smoke.