Quotes by Doing Nothing 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 doing-nothing struggle lying Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again. Emile M. Cioran doing-nothing encounters solitude Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. Floyd Dell doing-nothing being-free laziness 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 doing-nothing home feels By doing nothing we learne to do ill. George Herbert doing-nothing ill I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing. George Kotsiopoulos exchanging doing-nothing family-and-friends Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it. Georges Courteline doing-nothing youth Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. Gertrude Stein doing-nothing literature interesting Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking. George R. R. Martin doing-nothing father thinking Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option. George W. Bush doing-nothing faces world Doing nothing, badly. Graham Greene doing-nothing I generally don't enjoy relaxing and doing nothing on holiday. Greg Rutherford doing-nothing holiday enjoy I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing George Bernard Shaw doing-nothing sick people Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. Hannah Arendt doing-nothing guilt discovery ... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing. Hannah Arendt doing-nothing thoughtful thinking Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years. Henny Youngman doing-nothing impossible years The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off. Hoagy Carmichael time-off doing-nothing trouble I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. Hugo Grotius doing-nothing last-words labor In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act. Ian Hacking doing-nothing settling cases Voting for the right is doing nothing for it. Henry David Thoreau civil-disobedience doing-nothing voting «12345678»
