Top 847 Idle Chatter Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

It's so important to unclutter the mind. For me, creativity is greatly impeded just by the chatter and visual clutter of life. It's really important to have a space that is really clear for whatever is emerging to come.

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted.

People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.

They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.

When you say you love me, it doesn't matter. It goes into my head as just chit-chatter. You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free, But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

I believe that one should always be contributing towards life and never stay idle.

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

One thing is very clear from the chatter I see on Chinese blogs, and also from just what people in China tell me, is that Google is much more popular among China's Internet users than the United States.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

I have had my share of twiddling my thumbs while sitting idle at home

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.