Sit Quotes

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance,
I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

We listen. We listen. We move.
We sit. It rains. The sun comes out.
(there stands a friend)
We listen. We laugh. We share.
We sit. We dance. It rains.
There stands a friend.
We listen. We share. We sit. We dance.
The sun comes up.
There. I stand, a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board.
It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of
an oak which he has planted.
- Voltaire

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure
is the most perfect refreshment.
- Jane Austen

Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I hate vacations.
If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
- Philip Johnson

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV.
I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
- Lexa Doig

From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

A man has made at least a start on discovering the
meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under
which he knows full well he will never sit.
- D. Elton Trueblood

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,
the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave
owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
- Spike Milligan

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
- Matthew Henson

Trade isn't about goods.
Trade is about information.
Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
- C. J. Cherryh

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably
with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die.
It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
- Albert Brooks

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company.
We don't isolate the family.
We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom,
dad, you go sit on the bench.'
- Michael Eisner

I've never been one to sit back and go,
'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do,
because I don't want to lose them.'
- Jim Carrey

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work
of a year and choose what to type.
- Sharon Olds

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences
you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things.
How else do you solve problems?
- Dan Miller

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit,
or beneath whose roof I sleep.
- George Borrow

My great love is my home county of Cornwall,
I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves
on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.
- John Dyer

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making
pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
- Thurston Moore

I can't sit back and swallow stuff.
I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth
where you're not supposed to swallow it.
People just gave up.
- Gary Coleman

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write.
I would get quite bored carrying it out.
- Michael Ondaatje

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been
able to sit in a room every day,
year after year, alone.
- Susan Sontag

I'm not a public figure at all.
I don't really go out a lot to places where there are
people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.
- Catherine Keener

I think everyone should sit down and write a book.
It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.
- Norma McCorvey

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter
who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
- Peter Ustinov

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.
- Scott Caan

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos
and they sit back and they make deals.
And they say okay, 'I'm going do this:
France,
you're getting the pipelines.'
- George Clooney

I love argument, I love debate.
I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me,
that's not their job.
- Margaret Thatcher

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit
down and understand what is making these people put
dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
- Lakhdar Brahimi

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and
sit together in the dark,
like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries,
dreaming the same dream in unison.
- Angela Carter

Always rise from the table with an appetite,
and you will never sit down without one.
- Horace Greeley

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now.
There are a lot of interesting people there.
- Donald T. Regan

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back.
I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death
when someone comes over to talk to me.
- Alan Ladd

I'm more of a guy's girl.
I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or
sit down and do my nails.
But I have two sisters and a mother,
and we're Latin,
so we gossip.
- Zoe Saldana

Women have worked hard; starved in prison;
given of their time and lives that we might sit in
the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
- Ellen Wilkinson

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature.
Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50,
it involves justice.
That's what is important.
- Earl Warren

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric,
the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom,
or the head of this giant international corporation
that wants these ratings.
- Norman Lear

I find that most people know what a story is until
they sit down to write one.
- Flannery O'Connor

When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house.
We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night;
that's when it started getting dark.
That was it.
- Daisy Fuentes

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out.
We don't sit around crunching numbers.
- Dustin Diamond

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
- Alexander Smith

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
- Nafisa Joseph

It takes a lot of time to be a genius,
you have to sit around so much doing nothing,
really doing nothing.
- Gertrude Stein

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte
who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience
and unlimited imagination.
- James A. Michener

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say,
'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to
look into options for the future.
- Michael Phelps

Minds are like flowers.
If you let it sit there without soaking anything up,
it will dry up.
- Ken Hill

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.
- Fred Perry

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
- David Walliams

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing -
in art,
in pop - we'll ever do.
And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
- Gary Kemp

Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
- Donald Trump

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the
waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar,
and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
- Jackie DeShannon

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight.
All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it -
walk.
- Ayn Rand

He used to sit on my lap.
I was sort of ambivalent about that.
He was surviving any way he could.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley

Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way.