Doing Nothing Quotations | Page 2

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

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.

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

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.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.