Sit Still Quotes
91 quotes by 81 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
— Blaise Pascal
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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
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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
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
— William Macneile Dixon
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
— Woodrow Wilson
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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
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When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.
— Grace Ogot
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I've always been a fidget. I can never sit still for long.
— Roger Meddows Taylor
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Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still
— Mos Def
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