Sat Quotes

• If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

  Bill Watterson

  Stars, Funny Life, Cute Life

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• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Girl, Confused

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

  Oliver Cromwell

  God, Done With You, Names

  Remarks to Rump Parliament, 20 Apr. 1653. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations describes this as "oral tradition." BulstrodeWhitlocke, Memorials of the English Affairs (1682), describes Cromwell as telling the House that "they has sate long enough, unles they had done more good."

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• The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Evil, Progress, Goes On

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• What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

  Maya Angelou

  Cat, Writing, Two

  "Famous Writers Share How They Handle Writer’s Block" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2015.

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• But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

  Susan Fletcher

  Soul, Best Things, Persons

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• Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Sports, Intelligent, Speak

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Lying, Men, Silence

  "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers". Book by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881.

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• They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Hands, Perfect

  "The Elephant Vanishes". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Men, Gpa

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes and Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Then amongst flowers and springs,
  Making delightful sport,
  Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

  Torquato Tasso

  Sports, Peace, Spring

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• ... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man's face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Ignorance, Eye, Thoughtful

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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• At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Queens, Father, Book

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• I want to let [my photographs] be something that comes from the model in her own way. I don't want to take the models too much out of their own skin. I realized that I wanted to create a marriage between who the person was, the nature, the beauty in the figure, and how the models sat or posed themselves.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Skins, Want, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone.

  Michael Stipe

  Wall, Phones, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.

  Tony Danza

  Uncles, Children, Grandmother

  "Q&A: Tony Danza on Don Jon, Fake Deaths, and Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Danielle Bacher, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.

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• The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Betrayal, Writing

  "Q&A: Nick Cave and the Golden Reverb of Violence". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The Iraqis sat down for talks on how to put together a post-war government. They would have sat down yesterday, but somebody stole all their couches.

  Jay Leno

  War, Government, Yesterday

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• There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

  Franz Kafka

  Faded

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• We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

  James Connolly

  Children, Men, Long

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
  My word was law from Ith to Emain,
  And shook at Invar Amargin
  The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,
  And drove tumult and war away.

  William Butler Yeats

  War, Heart, Law

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mother, Running, Hurt

  Deepak Chopra (2015). “Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine”, p.127, Bantam

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• The president finally explained why he sat in that classroom on 9/11 for 7 minutes after he was told the country was under attack. He said he was 'collecting his thoughts.' What a time to start a new hobby.'

  Bill Maher

  Country, President, Hobbies

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