Sitting Quotes - Page 39

• Sitting still as stone watching - watching
  People walking by you wondering why
  No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did

  Dave Matthews

  Thinking, Sitting Still, People

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• To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Character, Home

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004".

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• If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I’d have to say, don’t neglect your family. Politics is important, sitting at the head table is glamorous. Traveling around the world, trying to do something for world peace was wonderful. But family and friends and faith are what really matter in life. And I know that. I see it so clearly now.

  George H. W. Bush

  Faith, Peace, People

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

  Robert Burns

  Long, Tasks, Fruit

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• It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate' and talks with a probably fake Texas accent and so on, because then can come back with the big propaganda apparatus saying, 'See, those elite liberals who run the world and are sitting around drinking French wine and eating quiche don't understand us ordinary guys'; regular guys like the guy working on the assembly line and George Bush, who is going back to his ranch to cut brush.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Drinking, Wine

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• One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.

  Studs Terkel

  Talking, People, Office

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• I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Simple, Judging

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Dance, Swans

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• One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

  J. K. Rowling

  Regret, Knowing, Sitting Down

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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Glasses

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• I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoo-ha.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Balls, Bowling

  "Jessica Simpson Talks Pregnancy, On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoohah! Apparently I have a lot of amniotic fluid, so whenever my water breaks it will be like a fire hydrant!

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Fire, Water

  "Jessica Simpson gives birth to baby girl Maxwell Drew" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. May 01, 2012.

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.

  Yehuda Berg

  Motivational, Ideas, Finishing

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• There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue, that we are a European country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Issues, Scary

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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• Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

  David Rubenstein

  Money, Years, Risk

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• Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Believe, Humility, Pride

  B. Alan Wallace, Steven Wilhelm (2016). “Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

  Rob Brezsny

  Loneliness, People, Feeling Lonely

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.72, Frog Books

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• Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

  Noah Levine

  Buddhist, Pain, Sitting Still

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• Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary, and these can never be learned from books. We gain them from sitting high on a cliff side, gazing at the sea, lost in reverie and listening to the laughter of children.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Gratitude, Laughter, Children

  Gary A. Kowalski (2003). “Science and the Search for God”, p.143, Lantern Books

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• Gently I stir a white feather fan,
  With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
  I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
  A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

  Li Bai

  Summer, August, Wind

  Li Po, “Summer In The Mountains”

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• Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Spiritual, Sweet, Talking

  "What We Nurture". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. May 9, 2013.

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• It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Years, Grace

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• If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

  Austin Kleon

  Inspirational, Creative, Trying

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.27, Workman Publishing

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• It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Writing, Son, Garden

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• There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

  Hisham Matar

  Invincible, Adoration, Felt

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