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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

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

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.

- Ahmed Ali

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

- Albanian Proverb

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly

- Andy Ritchie

It seems that everybody is connected to the devastation in some way, ... and just like with 9/11, our community will not sit idly by. We are issuing a citywide challenge to all clubs, churches, and citizens to go head-to-head and see who can raise the most money to help these fellow Americans.

- Arvind Singhal