{"quotes":[{"text":"Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["hate","life","live","sloth","status-quo"],"id":41534,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).","author":"Richard Baxter","tags":["puritanical","salvation","sloth"],"id":43766,"author_id":"Richard+Baxter"},{"text":"Shrink wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness. ('Prêt-à-penser').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["ideas","laziness","prefabricated","prêt-a-penser","result","shrink-wrap","sloth","thoughts"],"id":62206,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["ambition","choke","dreams","education","intelligence","lethargy","palahniuk","sloth"],"id":75564,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.","author":"Kevin Thoman","tags":["discipleship","laziness","procrastination","sloth"],"id":88560,"author_id":"Kevin+Thoman"},{"text":"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["hard-work","hustle","responsibility","sloth","work-ethic"],"id":109542,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["pride","regeneration","sanctification","self-discipline","self-indulgence","sin","sloth","the-flesh"],"id":126746,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"And then came the three-toed sloth. Stupid sloth. It was a crazy-looking beastie, all arms and bristling grey fur; its body was a blob, the kind of shape a six-year-old would draw for a pig, and its face was flattened like a racoon that had run full tilt into a brick wall. A triangular stub of a nose jutted out at an angle beneath a fringe that must have been difficult to see through. In fact, from side-on it looked disturbingly like John Lennon.","author":"Tony James Slater","tags":["amusing","animals","fun","funny","sloth","true-love"],"id":149671,"author_id":"Tony+James+Slater"},{"text":"Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["misfortune","odd-thomas","pico-mundo","prosperity","sloth"],"id":153340,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo, ant-eater, sloth, agouti, vampire-bat, marmoset, howling and prehensile-tailed monkey, the raccoon and muskrat carried by the angels from America to Asia? How did they get there? Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics? How did he know where the ark was? Did the kangaroo swim or jump from Australia to Asia? Did the giraffe, hippopotamus, antelope and orang-outang journey from Africa in search of the ark? Can absurdities go farther than this?","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["absurdity","africa","agouti","america","angels","anteater","antelope","ark","armadillo","asia","australia","bible","fable","fantasy","flood","flood-myth","funny","giraffe","hippopotamus","howling","humor","ice","journey","jump","kangaroo","knowledge","marmoset","muskrat","myth","noah-s-ark","old-world","orangutan","polar-bear","prehensile-tailed-monkey","racoon","sloth","swim","the-bible","the-flood","tropics","vampire-bat"],"id":235116,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}