Chairs Quotes - Page 8

• They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, India, Politics

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• Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

  Muhammad Ali

  Black, Ass, Loud

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• Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding; improve our intelligence; strengthen our defenses; counter its warped ideology; and stem the flow of foreign fighters into - and out of - the Middle East. And in two weeks, I will chair a meeting of the UN Security Council to further mobilize the international community around this effort.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Cutting, Two

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that they said, "But if we give women directors a job they're going to
  take jobs away from the men." I almost fell out of my chair. But when I encounter this kind
  of thing, what I try to do is give a chiropractic adjustment to the mind, quickly.

  Rose McGowan

  Jobs, Men, Talking

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• He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Philosophy, School

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

  E. B. White

  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.

  George Burns

  Song, Sitting Down, Great Inventions

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• I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Night, Knitting, Rocks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office, waiting to be called to the chair; they are read on transcontinental plane trips instead of watching banal and vulgar films spin out the time between our coasts; they are read by discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us.

  John Cheever

  Men, Thinking, Office

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

  Susan Rothenberg

  Book, Reading, Sitting

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• My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

  Colonel Sanders

  Government, Rocking Chairs

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• Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Littles, Would Be

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• I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fall, Government, Should Have

  "Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Tyrants, President

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• The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

  Mark Twain

  Ink, Machines, May

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• Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, One Day, Empty

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• There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Church, Bed

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

  Emily Post

  Car, Tables, Driving

  Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”

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• What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thrones, Poisonous

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• My cat is completely blind. I am watching her now, sweet-pea that is, circling the kitchen floor and bumping into the kitchen chairs. She is kind of like a furry ball in a pinball machine...she bumps into something and then just turns and moves on...it makes me smile - although i know it's just not that funny. I think i laugh because what i really feel like doing, is crying

  Jann Arden

  Sweet, Moving, Cat

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• I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Baby, Blood, Voice

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• What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for me to put out [rap beats]. But it's not going to happen. I've graduated from that.

  AraabMuzik

  Crazy, Rap, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Reading, Journey

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• One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.

  Luanne Rice

  Mother, Beach, Memories

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