Quotes About Shiftless

But the weak who constantly arouse the pity of humanitarians and philanthropists are the shiftless, the imprudent, the negligent, the impractical, and the inefficient, or they are the idle, the intemperate, the extravagant, and the vicious. Now

All their lives they've said how Folks that don't Work should Starve. Now they can't work but they ain't ready for what they been wishing on the shiftless of all races.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Granpa said he seen that and so he knowed. Granpa said ye had to understand. But most people didn't want to-it was too much trouble-so they used words to cover their own laziness and called other folks shiftless.

Shiftless, lazy, and dadblasted tired

The community is eminently Portuguese—that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

No fault is ever found within, Supaari thought, listening to them. None among us is dull or inept or shiftless. We are all powerful and triumphant, but for the ones above us.

A shiftless clerk, I take the days on trust, Nor strip them of their spoil before they go.

Now, with the lake polluted by industry and with the gradual influx of shiftless spacemen, the Cosmos had been given over to the most basic, simple need of its new patrons—rocket juice!

Rip van Winkle was lazy.

Relief for Migrants to Bankrupt State." Loreda flipped through the pages, saw article after article that claimed the migrants were bankrupting the state by demanding aid. Called them shiftless and lazy and criminal, reported that they lived like dogs "because they don't know any better.

That if our legacy is not entitlement, it must be hope. Because if it's not, then we become the shiftless, the wandering, the conquered. We become what they think we are. —

I'm a lazy sod.