Doing Nothing Quotes (page 12)

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• fighting
• acceptance
• evil

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between. Bill O'Reilly

• hard
• winning
• support

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing. Cory Doctorow

• nothing
• allowed
• allow

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• power
• peace
• mind

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing. Julien Benda

• future
• understanding
• past

He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future. John G. Diefenbaker

• life
• inspirational
• your life

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. Elizabeth Gilbert

• respect
• acting
• oppress

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people Alexander Mackenzie

• sweets
• nothing
• sweetness

The sweetness of doing nothing. Elizabeth Gilbert

• good
• men
• evil

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Thomas Jefferson

• reading
• writing
• presenting

I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write Katherine Mansfield

• one day
• lies
• history

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things. Umberto Eco

• country
• imagination
• peace

Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too. Imagine all the people. Living life in peace John Lennon

• play
• forever
• end

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out. Paul Auster

• mistake
• make no mistake
• those

Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes. David McCullough

• enemy
• fighting
• contentment

I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever. C. S. Lewis