Larry Bird Quotes

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

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

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

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.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.