One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
For most men, time moves slowly, oh so slowly, they don't even realize it. But time has revealed itself to me in… — Barnabas Copy Share Image
For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself to be a comedian. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting around writing jokes or anything. I… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile. — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
God has so ordered, that in pressing on in duty we shall find the truest, richest comfort for ourselves. Sitting down to… — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank… — Michael Beck Copy Share Image
Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We have the most liberal, the most leftist candidate who has ever run for president in my lifetime; he's a sitting duck.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I find this mortifying to admit, but I have one of those balls that helps my posture. They're hard to sit on,… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Larry and I, and a bunch of our colleagues, were sitting on great stories that needed to get out to an audience… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
Flying is my favorite time in the world. When I'm sitting in a plane, it's amazing because it's quiet and there's no… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is… — Harry Redknapp Copy Share Image
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was… — Gareth Bale Copy Share Image
I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I always remember this… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
