Farhan Akhtar

There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress. I knew her stress stemmed from her love for me, yet I never paid attention to her feelings. When it finally hit me that my idleness was taking a toll on her, I was genuinely sad and depressed.

Indian Director

Talulah Riley

I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.

English Actress

Sarah Steele

Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.

American Actress

Pia Zadora

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

Mortimer Adler

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.

American Philosopher

Jesse White

There are a lot of young people out there who need to start using their idle time in a positive way. Parents need to play an important role in making sure their children succeed in school.

Stephen Merchant

I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.

English Writer

Lee Radziwill

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

American Celebrity

Sussanne Khan

I believe that one should always be contributing towards life and never stay idle.

Kenny Beats

Idles are the best band in the whole world.

American Producer

Refers to non-busy, leisure times when you're unwinding.

Calm Relaxation

Use 'idle' to describe something not being used now, but could be again.

Not Everything

Suggests time spent unproductively or without a specific purpose.

Wasted Time

Can imply a relaxed or leisurely pace without stress.

Carefree Behavior

Used for something that should not be taken seriously or is not influential.

Lack of Credibility

Implies threats made with no intention or ability to follow through.

Powerless Threats

Describes a temporary action, while the vehicle is expected to move soon.

Temporary State

Relates to an engine running without moving the vehicle.

Engine Activity

Refers to a lack of work often against the person's wishes.

Involuntary Inactivity

Highlights a readiness or potential to be active once more.

Seeking Occupancy

 So why despair when the unexpected knocks on the horizon? It is in our nature to create anew, to be inventive and innovative, so why languish in idle expectation of a savior from above? So it is time for us Africans to take our destiny in our hands and realize we have agency in the scheme of life.

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 piece by piece, and if we don't work to protect the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin, it will become extinct in our lifetime. If the chirp from one tamarin to the next has proven to be more than just idle chit chat, imagine what else we have left to discover.

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 he described the clouds as the patron godesses of idle fellows two and a half thousand years ago, and you can see what he means. It's just that these days, us adults seem reluctant to allow ourselves the indulgence of just allowing our imaginations

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 is manufacturing capacity. And idle manufacturing capacity. We must be bringing us into a position that we can produce 12 billion doses of vaccine, if you consider prime boost, within less than six months. And this is technically possible.

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 "On the idle hill of summer, lazy with the flow of streams, hark I hear a distant drummer, drumming like a sound in dreams, far and near and low and louder on the roads of earth go by, dear to friend and food to powder, soldiers marching,

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 live everyone's of course just sit right next to us and then idle their engine it's my favorite thing in the entire world sorry I was just waving and then reminding them that we did do a live Safari show as well and that I can't

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 short idle nothing adventurous just a lazy day and this year pepra DS which is a very popular at kayaking area loads of people come from all over the UK to paddle here because of so much wildlife and the scenery is so fantastic

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 but fall slowly under the influence of gravity. Some of them stay aloft due to upward convection from the sun-heated ground, but most are in a state of slow, balletic descent. "Clouds are the patron goddesses of idle fellows,"

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 And finally, and this is really exciting for me personally, indoor vertical farming can actually be integrated seamlessly into the cityscape to help repurpose idle, underutilized and unused urban infrastructure.

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 chipmunk cheeks Oh daydreaming most people think it's just idle reverie a lapse and attention but what if it's actually the habitual practice of imagining the practice of

Idle

Not active or in use.

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To spend time doing nothing.

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Without purpose or effect or significance.

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Cause a vehicle engine to run while not moving.

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Not having or likely to have any work or employment.

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Calm Relaxation

Not Everything

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