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  • I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.

    Tired   Kids   People  
  • You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

    Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

    "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.
  • To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

    Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”
  • The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.

  • There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

  • I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years.

    Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet
  • I generally don't enjoy relaxing and doing nothing on holiday.

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

    Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

    Yield   Doe   Pieces  
  • I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.

  • No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.

    Emotional   Magic   Noses  
  • If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work.

    Jobs   Thinking   Hands  
    Source: www.edgemagazine.net
  • Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

  • I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing. You know what I mean? Just getting up, being around the house, going outside the back yard, coming back in; I really like to do nothing because I travel a lot. There's a lot of travelling. There's a lot of on the phone all the time. There's a lot of looking at papers and reading things and so you don't want to read magazines and you don't want to do anything; you don't want to read books, you just want to just kind of shut down a little bit.

    Couple   Reading   Book  
  • Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

    "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2000.
  • Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

  • I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

    Actors   Littles   Kitsch  
    "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.
  • I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

    Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.
  • blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

  • It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.

    Gun   Law   Matter  
  • What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

    Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
  • The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

  • In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

    Ian Hacking (2001). “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition”, p.79, Cambridge University Press
  • That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

    Pliny (the Younger) (18??). “The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest”
  • Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

    Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.76, A&C Black
  • I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.

  • Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

    Retirement   Worry   Age  
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