Robert Morley Quotes

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

I'm not a big football person at all.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but [Calvin] Coolidge only snores.

I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

Nobody did nothin' to nobody.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

Most people sleep themselves stupid.