Top 37 Quotes About Armchairs

#1. Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

David S. Baxter

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#2. While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Anne Tyler

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#3. When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.

Mel Brooks

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#4. We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

Ban Ki-moon

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#5. Dads had favourite armchairs in which they sat like starship captains, issuing orders and receiving cups of tea and shouting at the news without fear of contradiction.

David Nicholls

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#6. Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

Roald Dahl

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#7. ...mention chess and most people's eyes glaze over. They think of two old geezers, one of whom has died but no one has noticed, in overstuff armchairs at the Diogenes Club.

Charles Krauthammer

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#8. In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.

Michael Poeltl

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#9. Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

V.S. Pritchett

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#10. I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.

Rick Moranis

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#11. All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Oscar W. Firkins

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#12. For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.

Katarina Bivald

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#13. We're kissing in the rain.' Her voice was hard and soft at the same time. Like the velvet armchairs. Like the black rain inked on his hand.

Deborah Levy

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#14. Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

Maeve Binchy

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#15. Can we have genuine knowledge of space without ever leaving our armchairs?

Timothy Gowers

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#16. By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Ian Hacking

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#17. I get it the whole idea of willingly going to hell for someone. Living there insane if you have to because you'd rather be insane with them than endure life without them.

Karen Marie Moning

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#18. My heart is yours. It beats for no one but you. Do you hear me? Only you."~Jasper White
Surrender to Me

Monica James

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#19. I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

Cary Fukunaga

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#20. Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

H.W. Brands

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#21. It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

D.A. Wallach

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#22. New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

John Updike

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#23. We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

Thomas Raymond Kelly

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#24. How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.

Christopher Isherwood

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#25. Okay. So you know, you need to beat the dealer. Yeah?" he began. I nodded. "Okay. When you count cards, you have to remember; cards between 2 and 6 have a value of a plus one. Cards between seven and nine have a value of zero. Cards between ten and ace have a value of negative one.

Claire Adams

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#26. You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!

Feargal Quinn

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#27. I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

Tom Hardy

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#28. Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Larry Wall

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#29. Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin
But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.

Aesop Rock

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#30. So many of those who take Christ into the world, whether it be it's missionaries or artists, are tied by those who look over their shoulders. There is a lot of peer pressure within churches and Christian movements to dot all the i's and cross all the t's of a precise and perfect faith.

Steve Stockman

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#31. Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

Anish Kapoor

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#32. It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

Alex Gibney

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#33. The blue of daylight
fades and chills as the sun sinks
beneath clouds of fire.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#34. Excuse me," said the owner of the metal hand in a voice that would have made an insect of a more sentimental disposition collapse in tears.
This was not such an insect, and it couldn't stand robots.
"Yes, sir," it snapped, "can I help you?"
"I doubt it," said Marvin.

Douglas Adams

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#35. Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse

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#36. The painter's instrument
is his armchair.

Edouard Vuillard

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#37. I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

Jonathan Franzen

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