Sloth Quotes - Page 5

• My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

  Larry David

  Degradation, Backgrounds

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• Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

  Reid Hoffman

  Greed, Ego, Linkedin

  "Reid Hoffman", www.wsj.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

  Jules Renard

  Success, Congratulations, Failure

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.123, Tin House Books

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• Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Drunk

  "HMS Surprise". Book by Patrick O'Brian, 1973.

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• When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Reality, Should Have

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• Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sleep, Animal, Tree

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ease, Laziness, Tranquility

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.11

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• Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Sleep

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you don't sleep you get run down. Sloths never get a flu, cos its good innit thats when your body's replemishing.

  Karl Pilkington

  Running, Sleep, Body

  "NME Radio Show", June 9, 2008.

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• I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Heroic, Enterprise, Accounts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

  George Saunders

  Writing, People, Mind

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

  Richard of Chichester

  Prayer, Pride, Cutting

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• When I need inspiration, I usually go into a creative "slump" and become a total sloth. I watch a lot of movies, read a lot, go see shows, and go for walks. I don't really touch my instruments because it's like I'm collecting data. I love film. I love reading. Those two mediums are often more inspiring than listening to an awesome record. Seeing what somebody else is doing in another field, it's like, "Wow! That's amazing! I want to be amazing at what I'm doing!"

  Haley Bonar

  Inspiration, Reading, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the Lord Himself, you saints, intercede for us who are timid and sinful men, full of sloth, that the grace of Christ may come upon us, and enlighten the hearts of all of us so that we may love Him.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Love, Heart, Men

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• Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.

  A. H. Weiler

  Men, Laziness, Impossible

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• Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Ambition, Suffering

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

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• Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

  Jon Foreman

  Dog, Pride, Nudge Nudge

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• Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.5673, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

  Alain de Botton

  Lazy, Quoting

  Alain De Botton (1993). “Essays in Love”

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• Hereditary sloth instructs me.

  William Shakespeare

  Hereditary

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2013). “The Tempest”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

  William Shakespeare

  Rome, Cardinals, Tricks

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.146, BookCaps Study Guides

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• And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!

  William Shakespeare

  Apes, Court, Regions

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.378, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, World, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.3

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• Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth; and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.

  Yann Martel

  Beautiful, Religious, Numbers

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.5, Vintage Canada

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• The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Two, Slugs

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