Idly Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Idly Quotes from famous persons: Opal Tometi, Florence Nightingale, Dennis Chavez, Jupiter Hammon, John de Lancie. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Idly Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

We can’t continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

Opal Tometi

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Florence Nightingale

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.

Dennis Chavez

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

Jupiter Hammon

Being idly hanging around, and that’s not good for an actor to do.

John de Lancie

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.

Neal Boortz

To tell you the truth, I believe everything – tigers, trees, stones – are sentient in one way or another. You’d never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

Mary Oliver

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.

Joseph Lancaster

We will not stand idly by while any entity – be it a foreign power or corporation – seeks to criminally or unfairly undermine our country‘s place in the world.

Christopher A. Wray

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.

Gerry Adams

In the same way you pick idly at chips, promising this is literally your last one, you may be in a relationship that you know isn’t going anywhere, but you’re hungry for love, and it feels less frightening than nothing.

Joanna Coles

This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history’s arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.

Jo Becker

We won‘t sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

Max Baucus

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?

Virginia Woolf

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.

Adelaide Anne Procter

I’m sick of watching ‘Blue Lives Matter‘ supporters idly stand by any police officer simply because he wears blue, ignoring the facts that should make them cringe in disbelief and horror. Police brutality is systemic, not anecdotal.

Seph Lawless

I dislike the word ‘victim.’ I dislike being told that I ‘lost’ my husband – as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

Nina Bawden

I have no love for those who consider themselves ‘good people‘ but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It’s not enough to personally not do damage. If you’re present as someone else destroys what’s around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

Luvvie Ajayi

My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I’m wrong, sometimes had little bracelets attached to the caps-meaning your lip balm could idly dangle from your wrist like a charm bracelet when not in use, not unlike some iPhone accessories.

Emily Weiss

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.

Billy Sunday

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.

Jan Brewer

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.

Knut Hamsun

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Robert Falcon Scott

Let your voice be heard. Don’t stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.

Madeline Brewer

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

Dannel Malloy