Sit Quotes

4565 Sit quotes by 3036 unique authors

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey
I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does… — Ian Paisley
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee. — Hanif Kureishi
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! — Samuel Adams
If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me. — Dorothy Parker
I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass. — Roger Federer
I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke… — Roger Federer
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like… — Lincoln Steffens
You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them — Otto von Bismarck
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to… — V.S. Naipaul
When the whistle blows, I’m completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally,… — Tim Howard
I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and… — Thom Yorke
I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball. — Kurt Cobain
Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young. — Walt Whitman
If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about… — Eric Church
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see… — Samuel R. Delany
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply… — Sandra Cisneros
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the… — John Fante
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth,… — Cesar Chavez
Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit… — David Horowitz
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need… — Clarence Thomas
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that… — Maurice Sendak

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