Sit Quotes - page 11

I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense. (James D. Watson)
It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you. View quote
Franz Kafka
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. View quote
Milan Kundera
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; - Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. - You with the unpaid bill, Despair, - You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, - I will pay you in the grave, - Death will listen to your stave. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
People who chase after ever greater wealth without taking the time to enjoy it are like hungry people who are forever cooking but never sit down to eat. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still. View quote
Bill Bailey
I don't sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and still make him different. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. View quote
Richard Nixon
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. (Colum McCann)
There is one thing about being President - nobody can tell you when to sit down. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble. View quote
Mark Richardson
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band. View quote
Matt Cameron
How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later? View quote
Meg Cabot
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. View quote
Mehmet Oz
I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work. View quote
Maurice Gibb
How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little by little. I'll wonder, Well, what's coming? And that goes right through to the very end. For over a dozen years now, I've had a recurring dream where I'm reading a book and the pages are blank, but as I read, the words come to exist as fast as my eyes can move. Strange, strange thing. View quote
Nick Tosches
I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know. (P. J. O'Rourke)
A pleasant natural environment is a good- a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life. View quote
Randall Munroe
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. View quote
Regina Brett
I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses. View quote
Renee Zellweger