Lazier Quotes & Sayings

We have been trained to think of patterns, with the exception of those of music, as fixed affairs. It is easier and lazier that way but, of course, all nonsense. In truth, the right way to begin to think about the pattern which connects is to think of it as primarily (whatever that means) a dance of interacting parts and only secondarily pegged down by various sorts of physical limits and by those limits which organisms characteristically impose. — Gregory Bateson

The lazier a man is, the more he's going to do tomorrow. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Oh, yes, of course," he said hastily. He gestured for Sophie to come closer. "Lance, this is Sophie. She helped me out when you and the others ran out on me, and she's been travelling with me ever since. Sophie, this is Lord Lance the Lazy. You'll never meet a person lazier than him. Watch as he asks you to come forward so he can kiss your hand."
"Don't be ridiculous, Oliver, I wouldn't ask her to come forward," Lance scoffed. And then after a momentary pause, he added to Sophie, "Incidentally, if I do ask you to come forward, would you oblige? — Zeinab Alayan

Gabe realized he was standing there alone, with a goofy smile on his face. Limping inside, he closed the door behind him, her words still lingering in his mind. Gabe wanted more than anything to be able to choose happiness. He wanted a rain storm to make him smile. He desired that the simple task of cooking would make him dance. To Gabe, however, it didn't seem as simple as just making a choice. He hoped her joy was contagious, because he was in uncharted territories. — Wendy Owens

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist — Dalai Lama

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. — Sandra Cisneros

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [ ... ] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [ ... ] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [ ... ] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work. — Fran Lebowitz

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify. — Brandon Routh

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there. — Dale Carnegie

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize — Hank Johnson

cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today's elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed Physics for Poets and Rocks for Jocks and have remained ignorant of science ever since, despite the obvious importance of scientific literacy to informed choices about personal health and public policy. But saying that you have never heard of James Joyce or that you tried listening to Mozart once but prefer Andrew Lloyd Webber is as shocking as blowing your nose on your sleeve or announcing that you employ children in your sweatshop, despite the obvious unimportance of your tastes in leisure-time activity to just about anything. — Steven Pinker

I will never be able to find myself if I isolate myself from the rest of mankind as if I were a different kind of being. — Thomas Merton

There is no animal lazier than a cat. — Evelyn E. Smith

We would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. — Blaise Pascal

It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you are in the light. To remove yourself from the things you desire or things you find difficult to deal with is no answer. — Frederick Lenz

I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed. — Christina Baker Kline

But that's the paradox of expectations; they are infamous for generally never being fulfilled — Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

When I found him lying in the ditch holding a shovel, I thought he was sleeping on the job. Turns out he was being even lazier, and he was in fact dead. — Jarod Kintz

Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper. — Stephanie Klein

We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime ... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us ... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin. — Harry Hopkins

Even if the purely personal hardships of "labour" in the 'forties were not exaggerated, they have simply disappeared now...instead of starvation-wages for the individual "hand", elaborate calculations are made - not on comic opera stages, but in solemn Committees and even Commissions - how much it will take to keep him, his wife, and their two or three children, housed, fed, clothed, and amused - education and medical attendance being already provided for at the expense of the upper and middle classes...have all these enormous changes in their favour benefited the morale of the working classes?...Are they not lazier, greedier, more full of hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness towards other classes, readier to put on those classes any burden of which they may relieve themselves? — George Saintsbury

Studies have shown that the terms girl and lady have pejorative connotations: They conjure images of someone weaker and lazier; someone more nervous, afraid, dependent, immature, and inconsiderate; someone less sexy, intelligent, and certainly less charismatic than 'woman.' Indeed, the term woman is overwhelmingly interpreted as more favorable and is most often used to describe adult females who deserve respect. — Pat Heim

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed. — Edith Hamilton

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate ... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead. — Mark Twain

The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect. — Mark Shields

The lazier a man is today, the more he plans to do tomorrow. — Habeeb Akande

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ... — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that. — Jon Stewart

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility. — Mark Twain

Our minds are lazier than our bodies. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to. — Alison Krauss

I have a good family and I like to be home with them. The older I get, the lazier I get, and the more content I am to sit at home and eat string cheese. — Michael Ian Black

If there were no mountains, humanity would be much lazier! Challenges make people hardworking! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off. — Al Goldstein

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be — Evelyn Waugh

I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better ... but you're lazier. — Juan Mari Arzak

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment. — Leos Carax

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get. — Hoda Kotb