Doing Nothing Quotes - Page 13

• I like to relax. Spend it with people that I've grown up with, or people that I care about, and just relax, sit around doing nothing or sitting on a beach.

  Jason Statham

  Beach, People, Relax

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• Are you suggesting I’m not normal? (Nykyrian) Oh yeah, baby, you ooze normality. From the top of that assassin’s braid to the tip of those boots that I’m pretty sure conceal retractable blades. You’re just an average joe. No doubt about it. Cause, you know, everyone sits for hours doing nothing but typing. (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Average Joe, Doubt

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.162, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

  Ken Follett

  Believe, Mean, Sitting

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.390, Penguin

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• The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

  John le Carre

  Littles, Facts, No Excuses

  John le Carre (2008). “A Most Wanted Man”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Moving, Simple

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• I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, Add, Phrases

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• Uh, what are you doing?” “Nothing much. Just erasing all of Calinda’s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out what happened, but I’m making it look like a computer error. Still, I imagine she’ll get some nasty lectures from her profs and parents in the meantime.

  Jennifer Estep

  Errors, Parent, Looks

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Kiss of Frost”, p.146, Kensington Books

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• The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

  Cassandra Clare

  Alternatives, Accomplish, Seems

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

  George R. R. Martin

  Father, Thinking, Very Good

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2590, Bantam

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• You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur

  Marc Levy

  Thinking, Goes On, May

  Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

  Seth Godin

  Should, Remarkable, Ifs

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.66, Penguin

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• I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Lazy, Safe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.55, VM eBooks

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• Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it.

  Eileen Caddy

  Motivational, Glorious Life, Hands

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• Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Encouragement, Easy, Achieve

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• Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time - and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart.

  Gracie Allen

  Smart, Party, People

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

  Terry Eagleton

  Lying, Order, Might

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.

  G-Dragon

  Home, Feels, Comfortable

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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Museums, Government, Theatre

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Impeach the President and the Vice President, they are traitors to America, and so are all of their supporters. Impeach! Anyone in congress who refuses to save our union from these traitors by doing nothing needs to be recalled.

  Roseanne Barr

  America, President, Vices

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• Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Voting, Civil Disobedience, Voting Day

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Lying, Struggle, Economic

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• Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of mind, the opposite of sluggishness; meditation is wisdom. You should remain aware every moment of your daily life, fully conscious of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Life, Wisdom, Opposites

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• The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

  Dallas Willard

  Space, Grace, Accepting

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• The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society.

  Michael Lewis

  Greek, Pay, Reason

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Sitting, Espn, Enjoy

  "Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg Talk PAIN AND GAIN, G.I. JOE 3, and the Prospect of a G.I. JOE/ TRANSFORMERS Crossover". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 25, 2013.

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