I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
. . . 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.
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
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.
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?
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. 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.
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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.
To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
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.
Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall
I let my summer days pass idly on.
Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!
All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
