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"If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most."
"My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening."
"O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?"
"A normal day in my life - well right now it's kinda just like hang out and be lazy .I'm just kinda like enjoying my break, basic, what everybody does. Hang out in my pajamas and eat cereal and watch cartoons."
"I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a writer who likes to watch The Wire, I'm a writer who likes to eat a lot of steak."
"The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall."
"This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?"
"I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it."
"I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather."
"There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down."
"It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it."
"Plus models have personal trainers and go to college.We're not obese, or lazy, or stupid."
"Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy."
"Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?"
"Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own."
"You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap."
"Im pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun."
"An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor."
"Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity."
"When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself."
