16 Idly Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Service Will Wish Earn Our Exact Proportion Always Idly Rewards Justly Receive

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore. Florence Nightingale

Struggle World Hundred Way Ten Rather Ten Times Drown New Surf Idly Discovers Times Than Die Shore New World Stand

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example. Mary Oliver

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. Dennis Chavez

History Sit Down Consider Our Liberties Would Silent Supported Period Idly Era Permitted Go Were Legislation May Which Meaningless

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. Adelaide Anne Procter

Life Day Weary Organ Harmonious Keys Our Ease One Day Seemed Echo Fingers Over Noisy Idly Discordant Wandered Ill Seated

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails. Billy Sunday

My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual dignity. Gad Saad

Truth Dignity Sit Ways Logic Purity Attacks Individual Countless Idly Itself Inability Reason Exposed Including Utter

This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South. Jo Becker

Tired History Man Justice Waiting Black Revolution White Bend Arc Someone Give Segregated Parks Instead Toward Named How Idly South Up Begins Refuses Decide Bus Rosa Rosa Parks Shove Standing Swift Seat Grows Her

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. Joseph Lancaster

Education Youth Lost Society Benefit Ruined Thousands Bestow Morals Talents Parties Contending Idly Been Cultivation Want While Deprived Should Who Many Thereby Two

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. Nina Bawden

You Old Word Husband Unwanted Lost Shoes Victim Side Abandoned Had Like Track Idly Being Dislike Pair Railway

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

Wait Worst Idly Conditions

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? Virginia Woolf

Human Being Somewhere Down Everywhere Hidden Seek Written Written Down Know Him Occupied Idly Human Being Form Apparent Now Ever

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