Top 847 Idle Chatter Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

As I see it, tech in Africa 1.0 was the mobile-phone boom, and version 2.0 was about new apps developed in response to local needs. Tech in Africa 3.0 should be about those who are successful in transforming the chatter into real opportunities.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

Now, we don't get that many specific threats against sporting events, per se. But we know from listening to the chatter how terrorists want to attack iconic events. So whether it's a major Fourth of July celebration or the Super Bowl or the World Series, we assume that that is what they're targeting.

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.