Shiftless Quotes

#1. The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

Nancy Spain

#2. My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.

Jay London

#3. I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy.

John Kasich

#4. Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won't be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.

Shelton Smith

#5. Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but

William Graham Sumner

#6. We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

James Earl Jones

#7. Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.

Anthony Powell

#8. There's a fire that burns fast the more fuel goes on it and that's shiftlessness," Violet said stoutly. "Lois is a shiftless woman and money is just so much fuel to her fire.

Elizabeth Yates

#9. The men I was fighting were impotent. The shiftless, the purposeless, the irresponsible, the irrational - it was not I who needed them, it was not theirs to dictate terms to me, it was not mine to obey demands.

Ayn Rand

#10. The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

Mark Twain

#11. It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.

Albion Fellows Bacon

#12. The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

Flannery O'Connor

#13. When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

E.W. Howe

#14. I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'

Jack Kerouac

#15. You know a few shiftless persons in need of biological levity. You men of negotiable constancy like gold, don't you?

Michelle Franklin

#16. The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe how humans are biologically inclined to turn complex realities into soothing but oversimplified stories.

Anonymous

#17. The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few days ago and it seems that it keeps changing every time I come.

Magda M. Olchawska

#18. If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

Captain Beefheart

#19. I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

William Kempe

#20. Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#21. Change the world...!?
You think a little know-nothing brat like you has the right to say that!?

Yukito Kishiro

#22. I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

Ang Lee

#23. If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

Ken Livingstone

#24. Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

Kevin Hearne

#25. I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

T. Boone Pickens