Sits Quotes

486 Sits quotes by 381 unique authors

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that… — Curtis Stone
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in… — Jeremy Taylor
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and… — James Thurber
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real… — Rebecca West
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. — Woodrow Wilson
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. — Virginia Woolf
Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and… — Fareed Zakaria
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from… — John Zorn
I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to… — Alber Elbaz
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep… — Khalil Gibran
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting… — Elliot Perlman
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want… — Friedrich Nietzsche
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your… — Ellen Bass
Every tub sits on its bottom. — Zora Neale Hurston
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — H. L. Mencken
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires… — Andrew Marvell
When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a… — Rabindranath Tagore
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. — Mitch Albom
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the… — Mark Twain
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them… — Anne Lamott
Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can… — Unknown Author
Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits. — Neal Cassady

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