Sitting Still Quotes
32 quotes by 28 authors
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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
— Albert Einstein
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The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We…
— Robert Crippen
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The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a…
— J F C Fuller
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When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by…
— Richard Baxter
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The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by,…
— Paul Watson
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Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
— Noah Levine
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For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.
— Annie Oakley
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When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when…
— Maria Montessori
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Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the…
— Dani Shapiro
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A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
— Karlfried Graf Durckheim
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There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and…
— Philip Gulley
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
— Edgar Allan Poe
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And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to…
— Pico Iyer
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That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in…
— Ramona Koval
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You see more sitting still than chasing after.
— Jonathan Franzen
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In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel…
— Pico Iyer
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In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
— Pico Iyer
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When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different. And I felt out of place -- too loud, too full of…
— Angelina Jolie
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I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete…
— John Steinbeck
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I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
— Dylan Lauren
Who Wrote These Sitting Still Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 32 Sitting Still Quotes, led by these top contributors: