Luvvie Ajayi

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.

Nigerian Author

Florence Nightingale

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.

English Activist

Knut Hamsun

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.

Norwegian Author

Jan Brewer

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.

American Politician

Gad Saad

My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual dignity.

Canadian Scientist

Mary Oliver

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.

American Poet

Christopher A. Wray

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.

American Public Servant

Virginia Woolf

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?

British Author

Max Baucus

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?

Robert Falcon Scott

British Explorer

Often used in casual conversation rather than formal writing.

Informal Usage

Implies minimal attention or concern about the action.

Lack of Interest

Actions done idly often lack a specific purpose or goal.

No Intention

Highlights equipment or machinery not being used.

Indicates Inactivity

Objects in rest are often described as idly to visualize stillness.

Mechanical Rest

Indicates that time could be better spent or utilized.

Time Misused

Describes actions that have little to no significant outcome.

Lack of Impact

Often used to emphasize the uselessness of an action.

Emphasizes Futility

 this is me being a parent. Imagine in the physical world if somebody followed our children around with a camera and a notebook and recorded their every movement. I can tell you, there isn't a person in this room that would sit idly by. We'd take action. It may not be good action, but we would take action. We can't sit idly by here either.

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 this is no longer me being a tech pioneer or a privacy advocate this is me being a parent imagine in the physical world if somebody followed our children around with a camera and a notebook and recorded their every movement I can tell you there isn't a person in this room that would sit idly by we'd take action

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 their function elusive. We've since learned that they underscore executive and integrative ability, without which, we would hardly be human. They are crucial to abstract reasoning, planning, weighing decisions and flexibly adapting to circumstances. The idea that 9/10 of your brain sits idly by in your skull

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 but they wouldn't even tell me if she was there. I went from supervisor to supervisor, begging to submit evidence of Anna's son's special needs, but no one would even talk to me about the case. It felt surreal to watch the shoppers strolling idly by what felt like a life-and-death situation.

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 electrons were interacting so that the universe was opaque for much the same reason that you can't see through the Sun but that cosmic soup isn't just sitting around idly tiny variations in the density of the universe eventually will grow to be all the structures we

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 newly hatched chicks can expect very little from their fathers after four months of fasting there is nothing solid in a male stomach but he is able to produce a protein which secretion but that is very enough to keep a chicken idly weak fattened up

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 I was appalled by the possibility of this city of bright and vivid sunsets being overrun by a dull haze. At that moment, I felt an urge to do something about it, but I didn't know what. All I knew was I couldn't just stand idly by.

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 How would your life change? Now replace internet access with electricity. Think of your fridges, your TVs, your microwaves, just sitting idly for days. Now extend this nightmare to government offices,

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 should be idly twelve well I mean 24 hours ago and a lot could have happened between that time and now look in the movement of the 3rd Nile lioness that tells you lots of communication between

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 where eight state and city employees were facing charges as serious as manslaughter. I could no longer idly stand by and wait for the government to do its job.

Idly

Informal Usage

Lack of Interest

No Intention

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