We have become complacent and lazy.

They are lazy. I can't understand such people.

Sheltered from foreign competition, industry grew fat and lazy.

But how lazy that assumption seems now, given all that has since happened.

So stop being lazy and don't say there is a lot of time.

He was not just under briefed, but also lazy he insisted on remaining under briefed.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Yee tried to explain why bloggers in China, Taiwan and Hongkong seemed to be lazy to celebrate blogday 2007.

The problem is not that the Washington Post and papers like it hire people who are unintelligent or lazy.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

Indeed, a dangerous emotional discourse has emerged, reflecting and feeding the worst stereotypes of the lazy South and the despotic North.

His mother had past away, his father was a lazy man and his two elder brothers were drug dealers in a gang.

If a lazy and fearful Europe did not want Turkey, so much the worse for Europe history was offering more glorious alternatives to the Turks.

Consider this according to the World Value Survey, whereas 60 of Americans believe that the poor are lazy, only 26 of Europeans hold this belief.

Although blaming North Korea for the attack provides very convenient and believable explanations compact enough to fit into saucy headlines it is completely lazy and misleading.

The idea pushed by the beauty industry is that there are no ugly women, but lazy women who don't make the surgical changes necessary to conform.

People think that all teachers are bureaucratic, lazy, conformist, corrupt and uneducated, when in reality there are so many of us who are dedicated to this profession.

In a farewell interview on 60 Minutes in 2011, Rooney said Reasoner was a great writer in his own right but was lazy, giving Rooney more opportunities to show his writing skills.

How many times have you been told that real, substantial change isn't possible because most people are too selfish, too stupid or too lazy to try to make a difference in their community?

Thirty years ago, the Afghan mujahedin were mistaken for friends of the West when they fought their country s Soviet invaders. But how lazy that assumption seems now, given all that has since happened.

Meanwhile the lazy overweight woman that eats all day long (aka Gilligan) is joking about starving Africans and complaining she has to walk 100yards to get her food since the place next door is closed.

And that means that German leaders must portray the crisis not as a morality play pitting lazy, profligate southerners against hard working, frugal northerners, but as a crisis of interdependence in an economic (and nascent political) union.

So by the time you are nine years old, you've already learned, first of all, that people who get stuff wrong are lazy, irresponsible dimwits and second of all, that the way to succeed in life is to never make any mistakes.

And nothing prevents their contributions from being accepted from them except that they disbelieved in Allah and in His Messenger ( Muhammad SAW ) and that they came not to As Salat ( the prayer ) except in a lazy state and that they offer not contributions but unwillingly .

And what prevents their expenditures from being accepted from them but that they have disbelieved in Allah and in His Messenger and that they come not to prayer except while they are lazy and that they do not spend except while they are unwilling .

And nothing prevents their contributions from being accepted from them except that they disbelieved in Allah and in His Messenger ( Muhammad SAW ) and that they came not to As Salat ( the prayer ) except in a lazy state and that they offer not contributions but unwillingly .

And what prevents their expenditures from being accepted from them but that they have disbelieved in Allah and in His Messenger and that they come not to prayer except while they are lazy and that they do not spend except while they are unwilling .

My life was ruled by tk which stands for to kum, or to come, in the jargon of reporters. We fact checkers would joke about the lazy reporters who would hand us copy such as, Juan Tigar, tk years old, grew up in tk before studying at tk.

This division of labor between the System I and System II mechanisms would work well were it not for the fact that our lazy and cheap decision making mode tends to take over in situations that should command our fullest attention choosing a pension plan or a health care scheme, for example.

And the poem goes On the idle hill of summer, lazy with the flow of streams, hark I hear a distant drummer, drumming like a sound in dreams, far and near and low and louder on the roads of earth go by, dear to friend and food to powder, soldiers marching, soon to die.

There's an ancient and universal concept that words have power, that spells exist, and that if we could only pronounce the right words, then whooosh you know, an avalanche would come and wipe out the hobbits, right? So this is a very attractive idea because we're very lazy, like the sorcerer's apprentice, or the world's greatest computer programmer.