Lazy And Irresponsible Quotes & Sayings

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods? — Confucius

Wars should be over in three days or less ... and the American people must be all for it from the outset. — Evan Thomas

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people. — Robert Graves

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense. — Lauren Stamile

Oh, you're a picky sort, huh?" He laughed. "That takes balls, being choosy at a time like this. — Domashita Romero

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater. — Edward Albee

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. — Ovid

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities ... interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible ... — Carl Jung

What if things happened to you - special, magic things - because you'd been preparing for them? — Jennifer McMahon

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder. — Steven Pinker

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent. — John Marsden

Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it ... Someone just ripped off my eyelids. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more
an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years. — Dorothy H Cohen

Americans had become lazy and irresponsible, focused on the pursuit of sex, money, and pleasures, unwilling to sacrifice and prepare for the obvious threats all around them. What fools to think "Guns, Germs and Steel" would no longer shape human history. For decades they partied at the Coliseum, enjoying the games and government handouts, the illusion of a protected empire. Sedated with unconstitutional entitlements. Freed from responsibility by a pandering political system, a corrupt culture, and professional soldiers who kept the wolves at bay. — Drew Miller

Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray. — Osho

That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it. — Jason Fried

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period. — Bill O'Reilly

Happiness comes from righteous living and the development of a noble character. You can observe this by noticing that people who are truly happy are honest, unselfish, kind, responsible and have a high moral standards. On the other hand, unhappy people are invariably selfish, lazy, irresponsible and lacking of self discipline. And people who are miserable tend to be immoral, dishonest, greedy, cruel, or in other ways dark in character. — Helen B. Andelin

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. — Anthony Gregory

Every quilt has an intentional flaw because the only thing that's perfect is God. — Holly Jacobs

It is not just power, but impotence, that corrupts people. It gives them the mind and soul of slaves. It makes them indifferent, lazy, cynical, irresponsible, and, above all, stupid. — John Holt

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere. — Maria Bamford