The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
Thou shalt not stand idly by
Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Aragorn: Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall. Legolas: [of Merry and Pippin] They may yet be alive.
After making love there is nothing like making love, slowly, idly, like walking without a destination, or swimming in a warm sea.
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.
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.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
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?
A brick and a blanket need a logo, and I’m just the designer to hire to sit around idly as I ideally charge you by the hour.
The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
...so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
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.
Katherine stared intently at the cold, hard steel. She knew it would be loaded and that, if need be, there was extra ammunition in the back of the drawer. She would not be one of those girls, the ones who sit idly by and wait for the answers to come ...