Sit Still Quotes

91 quotes by 81 authors

• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust… — Corrie Ten Boom
• We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people… — Maya Angelou
• The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a… — Jacques Barzun
• Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains… — Subhas Chandra Bose
• Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips,… — Martin Luther
• Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and… — Robin Morgan
• Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and… — Thomas Merton
• My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still,… — Susan Boyle
• Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and… — G. Stanley Hall
• You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. — Henry David Thoreau
• I don't like to sit still for long at all, which has probably helped me along the way, and partly why I was drawn to… — Curtis Stone
• All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. — Blaise Pascal
• Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where… — Luther Standing Bear
• All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled by… — James Cross Giblin
• The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. — William Macneile Dixon
• We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act. — Woodrow Wilson
• There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they… — James Q. Wilson
• When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage. — Grace Ogot
• I've always been a fidget. I can never sit still for long. — Roger Meddows Taylor
• Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still — Mos Def

Who Wrote These Sit Still Quotes

81 authors contributed a total of 91 Sit Still Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Sit Still Quotes by Blaise Pascal
• 2 Sit Still Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
• 2 Sit Still Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
• 2 Sit Still Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
• 2 Sit Still Quotes by Jane Austen
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Susan Boyle
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Michael Drayton
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Charles Bukowski
• 1 Sit Still Quote by G. Stanley Hall
• 1 Sit Still Quote by John Steinbeck
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Elwyn Brooks White
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Sit Still Quote by A A Milne
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Curtis Stone
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Rory Bremner
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Houn Jiyu-Kennett
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Pico Iyer
• 1 Sit Still Quote by John Sarbanes
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Luther Standing Bear
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Anthony de Mello
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Stephanie Seymour
• 1 Sit Still Quote by James Cross Giblin
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Lauren Hutton
• 1 Sit Still Quote by Bible
• 1 Sit Still Quote by William Macneile Dixon