Sit Quotes - page 3

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves. (Jane Goodall)
If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn't go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?" View quote
Ronald Coase
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. View quote
John Dryden
At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months. View quote
Carrie Underwood
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence. View quote
Alice Walker
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. View quote
Colette
When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice. View quote
Sarah Vaughan
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. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. (Robert Browning)
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. View quote
Corrie Ten Boom
No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough. View quote
Saul Alinsky
Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people! View quote
Frances Burney
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' View quote
Paul McCartney
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. View quote
Adrienne Rich
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. View quote
Lee Iacocca
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. View quote
Davy Crockett
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. View quote
James A. Michener
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night Sleep, sleep in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. View quote
William Blake
He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. View quote
William Blake