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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning. -- Mason Cooley
To wait idly is the worst of conditions. -- Robert Falcon Scott
All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters. -- Jupiter Hammon
If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen. -- Dannel Malloy
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. -- Earl Nightingale
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity. -- Gerry Adams
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. -- Pierre Loti
We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life. -- Jan Brewer
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? -- Virginia Woolf
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. -- Adelaide Anne Procter
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. -- Knut Hamsun
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. -- Joseph Lancaster
I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. -- Nina Bawden
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. -- Billy Sunday
The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation. -- Neal Boortz
I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. -- Dennis Chavez
I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I sit, I can tell you, a president is always as strong as she wants to be. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so. -- Gary Johnson
I let my summer days pass idly on. -- George Arnold
Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. -- Roger Penrose
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly. -- Sappho
Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies. -- Jeremy Taylor
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. -- Honore de Balzac
When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you. -- Mark Hart
Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice! -- Robert Kiyosaki
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. -- Florence Nightingale
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it. -- Annie Dillard
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. -- Benjamin Franklin
Without time as a reference, the mind sits idly by and wanders into the ways of dark imaginings and evil works ~Hecate" -- M.L. Stephens
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next. -- William Shakespeare
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation. -- Tom Stoppard
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. -- Robertson Davies
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. -- Charles Lamb
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death. -- Wes Fesler
...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset. -- Thucydides
I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious. -- George Harrison
My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. -- William Wordsworth
I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about. -- Erin Morgenstern
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die. -- Shirley Hazzard
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task." -- Pierre Loti
As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that. -- Henry Winkler
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer. -- George Arnold
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun. -- William Shakespeare
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity. -- George Bernard Shaw
Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq. -- Ted Rall
I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder. -- Nick Antosca
I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates. -- Woody Allen
The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?" 'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies. -- Christine Feehan
Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who would otherwise choose it. So it is with lovers. -- James Guida

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