Quotes About Sitting On The Fence

#1. Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.

Celia Thaxter

#2. The more you know, the harder you will find it to make up your mind, it doesn't really matter if you find it. You can't see which grass is greener, chances are it's neither and either way it's easier to see the difference when you're sitting on the fence.

Tim Minchin

#3. Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.

Bridget Allison

#4. But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

Jeannette Walls

#5. If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

Mark Twain

#6. The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

Kerry Packer

#7. What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

Winston Churchill

#8. Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.

Peace Pilgrim

#9. The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Bertrand Russell

#10. No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

James Beard

#11. I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.

S.T. Joshi

#12. Plenty of girls saw college as some sort of exploratory period.

Tammara Webber

#13. It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.
No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#14. You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

Paul Theroux

#15. Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.

David Allen

#16. In a world of limitations, only a fool would hesitate to touch the infinite.

Rhoads Brazos

#17. I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And yet ... I don't disbelieve either. I'm kind of sitting on the ghost fence, dangling my legs on both sides, not sure which way to jump. I think I might be here for a while.

Karen Tayleur

#18. They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side.

Sitting Bull

#19. Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Lemuel K. Washburn

#20. I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do you!' I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.

Brian Schmidt

#21. My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

Diego Corrales

#22. I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

Rand Paul