Sit Quotes - page 8

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more. (Joe Strummer)
It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock. View quote
James Joseph Sylvester
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. View quote
Chuck Jones
I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting. View quote
Bob Woodward
What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset? View quote
Fritz Leiber
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money. View quote
Mario Lemieux
Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgement. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone-all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it. View quote
Albert Camus
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! View quote
W. S. Gilbert
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause. View quote
W. S. Gilbert
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. View quote
David Suzuki
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost. View quote
Alan Watts
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem. View quote
Muhammad Ali
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. (Alexander Smith)
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living. View quote
E. B. White
Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease. View quote
Jane Austen
I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
I'm turned on by guys who are cultured. That'll keep me intrigued. They don't have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table. View quote
Rihanna