Top 847 Idle Chatter Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter - goals, social media, image, persona. And if you're able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.
The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.
This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.
It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.
What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.
I love to do yoga, even if it means getting up at 5:30 in the morning. It helps me breathe and stop all the chatter in my head. That can help you get through everything.
That man is idle who can do something better.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
I can't sit idle, as I love to work.
I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.
Idle time is the devil's play.
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
An idle head is a boxe for the winde.
The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally like arguing with someone who is speaking another language, so there's no engaging with that kind of stuff.
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.
I'm not good when idle.
Be not solitary, be not idle
You find you have a lot of friends when you are rich and idle.
To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"
We have about 200,000 ISIS tweets per day that hit the United States. The chatter is so loud and the volume is so high that it's a problem that's very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
I'm not very happy idle.
I don't like idle time.
I would rather be sick than idle.
In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.
Love does not stay idle.
An Idle youth, a needy Age.
The idle man is the devil's cushion.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you
The idle brain is the devil's playground.
Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.
I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.
It is idle to await unanimity.
[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.
Busy opinion is an idle fool.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
A truce to idle phrases!
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.
Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.
If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins.
I am capable of being idle.
