Sit Quotes

4565 Sit quotes by 3036 unique authors

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. — Mark Rylance
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies:… — James Salter
I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much. — Jeremy Brett
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer… — Katharine Whitehorn
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something… — Milton Babbitt
I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will… — Jane Blalock
It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith… — Ray Stedman
I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive. — Norma McCorvey
You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and… — Unknown Author
The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively. — Joseph Barrell
There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes… — Chogyam Trungpa
We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice… — Pema Chodron
The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard… — Larry Rosenberg
To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart. — Gautama Buddha
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious. — Joel Hodgson
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. — William O. Douglas
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and… — William Shakespeare
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human… — Rex Harrison
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is… — John Dryden
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans,… — Mike Schmidt
You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry. — Graham Kennedy
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. — Aldous Huxley
If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will… — Wayne Dyer

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