Sit Quotes
4565 Sit quotes by 3036 unique authors
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You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And…
— Robert Caro
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As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don’t let the sands of time get into the eye…
— Jim Elliot
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.
— Rebecca West
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When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you…
— Tinker Hatfield
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she…
— Joko Beck
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I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing…
— Walt Frazier
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I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs…
— Johnny Vander Meer
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I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
— Bobby Knight
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell…
— John Milton
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Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
— Gerald Holton
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Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story…
— Unknown Author
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If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best…
— Robert Mark Kamen
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I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place
— Harvey Pekar
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
— Jan Schakowsky
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I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
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Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough?... John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so…
— Jim Clyburn
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The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
— Pema Chodron
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If you can sit quietly after difficult news, if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm, if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic…
— Jack Kornfield
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Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on…
— Federico Fellini
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