Doing Nothing Quotes (page 22)

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• contentment
• being
• contents

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. Hilaire Belloc

• help
• people
• affection

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. James Weldon Johnson

• writing
• earth
• god

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. Ludwig van Beethoven

• good
• time
• good times

I am having a good time doing nothing. Phylicia Rashad

• thinking
• world
• manly

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world. Bernard Baruch

• time
• enough
• times

There's never enough time to do nothing! Daniel Radcliffe

• environment
• people
• best

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set. Christian Bale

• best
• time
• sometimes

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. James Baker

• little
• brook
• laying down

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over. Christopher Atkins

• pitied
• me
• nothing

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. James Agate

• mind
• time
• thinking

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. Mortimer Adler

• true
• lifetime
• faith

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr

• moving
• wonder
• feeling

Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble. P. G. Wodehouse

• saying
• writing
• wellness

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings. Andre Gide

• may
• mercy
• helpful

Do not desire chiefly to be cherished and consoled by God; desire above all to love Him.Do not anxiously desire to have others find consolation in God, but rather help them to love God.Do not seek consolation in talking about God, but speak of Him in order that He may be glorified.If you truly love Him, nothing can console you but His glory. And if you seek His glory before everything else, then you will also be humble enough to receive consolation from His hand: accepting it chiefly because,... Thomas Merton