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• My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie Hardball, starring Keanu Reeves and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!

  Matt Prokop

  Mom, Girlfriend, Real

  "17 Questions with Matt Prokop". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Military, Army, Sitting Still

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• You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Mean, Journey

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• I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.

  Alfred Kazin

  Reading, Ideas, Long

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• Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.

  Ratan Tata

  Encouragement, Real, War

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• I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.

  Irving Howe

  Powerful, Mean, Reality

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• No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Tired, Cat, Mind

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• How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?

  Derek Tangye

  Cat, Lap, Compliment

  Derek Tangye (2014). “A Cat in the Window: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

  Candy Crowley

  Mother, Missing, Want

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• I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

  Matthew Williamson

  Fashion, Real, Bed

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• Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can't do anything to help? That in itself would be hell for me. I'd be up there fighting god and his angels to let me out, so that I can come down and at least try to help. I am a moral person. Heaven is for uncaring Hypocrites.

  Deborah Pryce

  Fear, Hypocrite, Angel

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• When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her and mentoring her. They think he would have spent a lot of time in bringing her up. They think he would have constructed her.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, Father

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• My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Silence, Sound

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• We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Intention, Where You Are

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• There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

  Doug Ose

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  "GOP representative would ban dirty words from TV / Ose angry FCC failed to act when Bono, Richie used f -- word" by Edward Epstein, www.sfgate.com. January 9, 2004.

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• I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

  Charlie Munger

  Dream, Smart, Believe

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• I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Commitment, Persistence, Sitting Down

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• It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

  Gerald Brenan

  Morning, Attitude, Writing

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• In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved,
  And our seeking is His seeking
  And our words are His words...
  We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him.
  Sitting by His side, we ask:
  'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

  Rumi

  Life And Love, Shadow, Sides

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• Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Flower, Islamic

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• Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.

  Ray Bradbury

  Death, Lying, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Horse, Team

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• I bet you like sitting at red lights.

  Jon Gruden

  Football, Light, Red

  "8 Ridiculous Things Jon Gruden Said On Monday Night Football" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. October 29, 2013.

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• You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

  Sitting Bull

  Stupid, Native American, Thinking

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• I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

  Sitting Bull

  Country, Native American, Want

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