Quotes of: Good-men-to-do-nothing Keyword

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and band, the distinctions o...

Common Sense

You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil unt...

The Seeds of Time

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, ...

Voss

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.” "Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and em...

Ruth Sepetys

Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scatt...

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Colonel Blake: [blows whistle] Alright, men! we're not here to sell lemonade, we're here to practice. But first, I'd like to officially welcome Spearchucker to our team. It is okay to call you that? Spearchucker: Call me whatever you want to. Colonel...

MASH

All men are fools, but all fools are not men.

American

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Leo Tolstoy

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Brigitte Bardot

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Elihu Root

He wanted nothing to do with her. He wanted everything to do with her.

Blame It on the Kiss

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Gilles Deleuze

I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.

Sonakshi Sinha

Do what YOU want to do because if you don’t, you are nothing but your own slave.-RVM

Rvm

Doing nothing is even worse than doing the wrong thing.

Michel Templet

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

George Savile

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Robert H. Schuller

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

William Glasser

Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

Fetty Wap

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Francesca Annis

Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough