Sitting Quotes
2392 quotes by 1753 authors
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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned…
— Lewis Carroll
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting…
— John Flavel
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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
— Orhan Pamuk
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We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and…
— Michael Jordan
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with…
— Isak Dinesen
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Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that…
— Rajneesh
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Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen…
— Al Gore
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Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow…
— Clifford Stoll
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll…
— John Grisham
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I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for…
— Ruby Wax
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A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a…
— Art Linkletter
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We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
— Ajahn Chah
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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet;…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to…
— Ajahn Chah
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In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
— Richard Dawkins
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In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on…
— Rajneesh
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