Quote by Renata Adler
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

Other quotes by Renata Adler

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

Category:
Mental Illness
Read Quote

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

Category:
History
Read Quote

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

Category:
Style
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
great
category

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. – Princess Diana

Category:
great

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. – John W. Gardner

Category:
great

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort. – John Ruskin

Category:
great

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. – Willa Cather

Category:
great

Random Quotes

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. – Norman Vincent Peale

Category:
Money

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Category:
Home

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. Theres an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future. – Jay Weatherill

Category:
Future

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.. – Proverb

Category:
Names