Sitting Quotes - Page 2

• I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

  David Eagleman

  Legs, Bounce

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• I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.

  Jeanne Calment

  Wrinkles

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• Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

  Jodi Picoult

  Silence, Sound, Realizing

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

  John Milton

  Eye, Sky, Soul

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.114

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• You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  New York Times, May 21, 1986.

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• The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

  Jules Renard

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.26, Tin House Books

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• Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

  Lauren Graham

  People, Use, Way

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

  Len Wein

  Office, Sides, Lenses

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

  Sara Zarr

  Waiting, Kind, Torture

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• Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

  Jethro Tull

  Fun, Hate, Philosophy

  Song: Teacher, Album: Benefit, 1970

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• Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

  A. J. Jacobs

  People, World, Couches

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• Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

  Bill Gates

  Looks, Clock, Idle

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• Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Beach, Alive, Walking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

  Faith Ringgold

  Art, Writing, Waiting

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• Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

  Hasan of Basra

  Death, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Sitting let me learn what the NFL is all about.

  Chad Pennington

  Nfl, Let Me

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• A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Mind, Half

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Standing Alone, Young, Elders

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• People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sarcasm, People

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Dream, Falling In Love

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 22, 2011

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• One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Distance, Practice

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

  Robert Bateman

  Worry, Helping, Sitting Around

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