Idly Quotes
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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
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
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
In "The Lost Phoebe". — Dreiser Theodore
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
~Hecate — M.L. Stephens
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
If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.
— Dannel Malloy
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
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
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
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
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
— Roger Penrose