Sit Quotes
4565 Sit quotes by 3036 unique authors
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When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.
— Nelson Mandela
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And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of…
— Robert Grosseteste
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I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty…
— Joyce Maynard
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people…
— Hippocrates
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...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.
— Josh Lewsey
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This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.
— Antonio Banderas
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If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two…
— King Edward VIII
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Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we…
— Oswald Chambers
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It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and…
— Unknown Author
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... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls…
— Stephen King
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To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of…
— Wayne Dyer
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Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit.…
— Keith Olbermann
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There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is…
— Lena Dunham
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One time I told this lady to give me all her money, she said no. So I cut her and pulled her eyes out. I…
— Richard Ramirez
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Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive…
— Li Ka-shing
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Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work…
— Scott Jurek
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The thing to do,' I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, 'is to get absolutely everything in the…
— Miss Read
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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what…
— Adriana Trigiani
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it…
— Jane Asher
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