Indolence Quotes (page 2)

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• character
• characters
• rigour

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence. Tom Stoppard

• new
• vision
• new york

Bradlee had been recruited with the idea that the New York Times need nod exercise absolute preeminence in American journalism. That vision had suffered a setback in 1971 when the Times published the Pentagon Papers. Though the Post was the second news organization to obtain a copy of the secret study of the Vietnam war, Bradlee noted that 'there was blood on every word' of the Times' initial stories. Bradlee could convey his opinions with a single disgusted glance at an indolent reporter or... Carl Bernstein

• children
• busy
• to live

Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live! Friedrich Nietzsche

• humanity
• character
• diversity

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. Samuel George Morton

• nature
• knowledge
• arising

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. Oliver Goldsmith

• fate
• common
• commonly

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. John Philpot Curran

• nature
• enough
• enough is enough

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect. James Payn

• classy
• words
• lazy

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. Bern Williams

• she
• inspiration
• inspired

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart. Anna Julia Cooper

• contentment
• contented
• contention

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. Thomas Chandler Haliburton

• look
• may
• manly

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. Lord Chesterfield

• manly
• actionable
• criticism

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. John Mason Brown

• life
• world
• world life

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. Abu Bakr