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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

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

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies. — Jeremy Taylor

Perhaps Mr. Grey insists on all his employees being blonde. I'm wondering idly if that's legal. — E.L. James

She idly wonders which is crueler, man or nature. She determines it must be man. Nature has no remorse, but neither does it have malice. — Neal Shusterman

Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided. — Kate Chopin

Oh, well," Mat said idly, "she's just the Dragon Reborn's woman."
(about Min) — Robert Jordan

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. — Florence Nightingale

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

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

For a while he sat idly outside his door brooding in the spring sun.

In "The Lost Phoebe". — Dreiser Theodore

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

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

he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men. — Michael Moorcock

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

She rolled toward him, nestling close and throwing her arm over his chest. Her fingers toyed idly with the hair there, sifting — Tessa Dare

A penis has never been something that you pick up and put down and put away idly without consideration. — Larry Kramer

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it. — Annie Dillard

After making love there is nothing like making love, slowly, idly, like walking without a destination, or swimming in a warm sea. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. — Frederick Lenz

Kestus idly added theoretical torture to the theoretical murder, because done right, it might be funny. — Jim Butcher

Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog. — Mark Haddon

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen. — Dannel Malloy

Idly, I switch the mean machine on and fire up the e-mail program. — E.L. James

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly. — Sappho

One might open the book idly, but one never knows what treasures one might find. — Julie Klassen

To wait idly is the worst of conditions. — Robert Falcon Scott

[Christian Grey] didn't want me as a girlfriend. I turn on to my side. Idly, I wonder if perhaps he's celibate. — E.L. James

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

Thou shalt not stand idly by — Anonymous

So when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic. — Andrew Davidson

Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice! — Robert Kiyosaki

Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance! — Charles Dickens

He was still holding the end of her scarf, rubbing the silk idly between his thumb and fingers. She watched his hand. — Rainbow Rowell

They but appear a solemn People, - worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly. — Thomas Pynchon

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 cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. — Martin Luther King Jr.

When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies. — Kelseyleigh Reber

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

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing — John Paul Warren

As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like. — Patrick McGrath

The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly — Michael Crichton

Happy, thrice happy, every one Who sees his labor well begun, And not perplexed and multiplied, By idly waiting for time and tide! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters. — Jupiter Hammon

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do. — Helen Gurley Brown

He's the river that idly passes between mountains. I'm the volcano that destroys a village. — Krista Ritchie

I let my summer days pass idly on. — George Arnold

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. — Honore De Balzac

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

I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom. — Charlaine Harris

The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you. — Mark Hart

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning. — Mason Cooley

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

Sig idly stuck her index finger in her cup of steaming-hot coffee and stirred it. I couldn't decide it it was mildly erotic or mildly disgusting. — Elliott James

I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the street in my underwear, hallicinating purple spiders. — Lauren Oliver

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. — Roger Penrose

Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr harr. — Walker Percy