I Quotes
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“Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron”
“Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.”
Source: The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel
“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.”
“Idleness only leads to bad deeds”
“Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.”
“Idleness ruins the constitution”
“Idleness, seldom good for anyone, was particularly unhealthy for William Treadwell. It unlocked a certain door in his mind, making it easier for Dark Ones to enter.”
Source: Hunter's Moon: A Novel in Stories
“Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.”
Source: An Apology for Idlers
“Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.”
Source: Works
“Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.”
“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.”
Source: Goose-quill Papers
“Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.”
“Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering”
“Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“Idling has always been my strong point.”
“Idling is not my strong suit.”
“Idly, I wonder what sort of execution Cardan might order. Maybe he'd strap me to some rocks and let the sea do the work. Nicasia would like that. If he's not in the mood, though, there's always beheading, hanging, exsanguination, drawn and quartered, fed whole to a riding toad...”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Idly, in the strange purgatory between reality and the dream realm, I ponder the absurdity of these last few hours. I killed him, we buried him. And yet, our thoughts and actions are as if nothing happened...
A sardonic thought settles in the milky haze of my exhausted delirium.
I became a woman today.
But whose blood truly signified it?”
Source: Chains of Nurture
“Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.”
“Idolatry begins with a false separation of gift and giver. Rather than a momentary comparison for the sake of testing our affections, idolatry is a permanent separation for the sake of false worship. God divides things in order to gloriously reunite them. Heaven and earth, male and female, Trinitarian glory and its created beams—all of these are separated in order to bring about a more perfect and glorious union. On the other hand, sin just separates. It divides in order to destroy. It tears asunder and leaves the fragments scattered on the ground. The separation of gift from giver ruins our enjoyment of both.”
Source: The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts
“Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things”
“Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.”
Source: Sweet Destiny
“Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.”
“Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations”
“Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.”
Source: Table Talk: Being the Discourses
“Idolatry is inherently paradoxical. Were we an ideally-flawed replication of the divine, free-thinking, history-repeating links in an outcast chain on a smaller, mortal scale, or is our imperfection a special dispensation? Are we a sly thought experiment? Shouldn't those we admire reflect this duality and our shared humanity — not a perfection that never was and never will be?”
“Idolatry is not only excessive reverence, but also excessive abhorrence - that other side of the coin which runs the risk of establishing a false gospel under the implication that, for example, if you hate this certain individual, you're a good person no matter what; or if you love this certain individual, you're a bad person no matter what.”
“Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.”
Source: Fast Facts® on False Teachings
“Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.”
“Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.”
“Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.”
“Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.”
“Idoli to mam trzech. Pisarzy. Dwaj mieszkają w Łodzi, trzeci w niebie... ale w Łodzi ma po sobie park.”
“Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.”
“Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.”
“Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God”
“Idols by nature anyway,
They shush me and look down on me”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.”
“Idols of the injury,
dug in behind the least understood
motor plan information.
The vile abomination temporal lobes and
The four loathsome memory walls and
The four reasoning, arithmetic beasts
are found for all behind pain and planes.
Portrayed as a house,
Go in, function, cause blindness from
The house's hearing spirit, judgment and
The court's four bronze woes and
The functioning brain lobe wings,
Go in, hearing and perception,
I dig under door fronts, pain and plans.”
Source: Tamper
“Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things”
“Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty.”
“Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.”
“Idris had been green and gold and russet in the autumn, when Clary had first been there. It had a stark grandeur in the winter: the mountains rose in the distance, capped white with snow, and the trees along the side of the road that led back to Alicante from the lake were stripped bare, their leafless branches making lace-like patterns against the bright sky.
Sometimes Jace would slow the horse to point out the manor houses of the richer Shadowhunter families, hidden from the road when the trees were full but revealed now. She felt his shoulders tense as they passed one that nearly melded with the forest around it: it had clearly been burned and rebuilt. Some of the stones still bore the black marks of smoke and fire. “The Blackthorn manor,” he said. “Which means that around this bend in the road is …” He paused as Wayfarer summited a small hill, and reined him in so they could look down to where the road split in two. One direction led back toward Alicante — Clary could see the demon towers in the distance — while the other curled down toward a large building of mellow golden stone, surrounded by a low wall. “ … the Herondale manor,” Jace finished.
The wind picked up; icy, it ruffled Jace’s hair. Clary had her hood up, but he was bare-headed and bare-handed, having said he hated wearing gloves when horseback riding. He liked to feel the reins in his hands. “Did you want to go and look at it?” she asked.
His breath came out in a white cloud. “I’m not sure.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire