Idle

Idle

Idle (idling) is a term which generally refers to a lack of motion and/or energy.

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Famous quotes containing the word idle:

    “It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement, as all boys kill cats.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)