Top 122 Idly Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
We will not stand idly by while any entity - be it a foreign power or corporation - seeks to criminally or unfairly undermine our country's place in the world.
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you.
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
In the same way you pick idly at chips, promising this is literally your last one, you may be in a relationship that you know isn't going anywhere, but you're hungry for love, and it feels less frightening than nothing.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.
If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.
To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.
To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.
Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall
When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual dignity.
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.
We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?
The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.
I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.
As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.
I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.
To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
I let my summer days pass idly on.
Being idly hanging around, and that's not good for an actor to do.
I won't stand idly by watching Janet Yellen radically transform the IRS into a leftist, Praetorian Guard that spies on Americans' private financial transactions.
Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.
I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I sit, I can tell you, a president is always as strong as she wants to be.
Let your voice be heard. Don't stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.
I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
...we cannot stand idly by now, as the Nation is urged to embark on an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine, the end of which no one can see, and from which the patient is certain to be the ultimate sufferer.
My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.
