Top 100 Sit Back Quotes
#1. The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.
Albert Einstein
#2. I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
James F. Byrnes
#3. For me, whatever the outcome, it's nice to sit back to something and say, Man, I'm really proud of that. I'm real proud of the experience that I had, I'm proud to be a part of something so iconic whether anyone watches it or not. They can't take away the experience that I had.
Mike Vogel
#4. Sit back down - and for God's sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don't have my years of practice.
Robert A. Heinlein
#5. A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite ... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
Charles Dance
#6. Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.
Marjorie Taylor
#7. My mind mellows now, and I sit back, glad to be done with a busy day. Evening's tranquility presents a chance to settle in with myself and with You. It is the time of day that I most often reflect on who I am and what my life means.
Hope Lyda
#8. I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ... they'll have the dance right in front of them.
Judith Jamison
#9. If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list ... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.
Elizabeth May
#10. I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#11. The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry ... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.
Warren Buffett
#12. I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'
Jim Carrey
#13. In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#14. The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.
Johann Lamont
#15. They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?
Kai Greene
#16. When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.
Warren Buffett
#17. Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
Buzz Aldrin
#18. But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They dont want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#19. You are the fans, sit back and watch. That's all you're doing anyway.
Chris Brown
#20. If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.
Russell Westbrook
#21. Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny.
Anne Tyler
#22. I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.
Eminem
#23. Just don't lean forward too much. It's meant for people to sit back, hold onto each other and relax. The lover's ride.
Alexia Purdy
#24. It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.
Paul Ashworth
#25. I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.
Spike Lee
#26. Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai
#27. The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
George Clooney
#28. I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink - not any pop or soda - lay back, watch the games. It's always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.
Rob Gronkowski
#29. Welcome, fellow Cahills... I am the Outcast. Sit back. I have a few things to say.
Jude Watson
#30. I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.
Dean Bakopoulos
#31. You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book.
Dr. Seuss
#32. Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?
Nicholas Sparks
#33. Fucking flattery, success, money.
I just sit back and suck my thumb.
Ikkyu
#34. You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.
Harvey MacKay
#35. Always seek peace in your life and then sit back and enjoy all the other blessings that follow!
Timothy Pina
#36. I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
Buddy Rich
#37. Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#38. Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of 'Soleil' came from, on a beach in Hawaii, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy.
Guy Laliberte
#39. Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
Larry Wilcox
#40. What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?'
Ray William Johnson
#41. Hey, it's your birthday ?. Sit back, relax and enjoy it ? you've earned it! Have a Great One.
Margaret Jones
#42. When God's plan comes into action, you'd better sit back and hold on." - Constantine
Lin Stepp
#43. When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.
People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.
Therone Shellman
#44. There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance ... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess
#45. I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
Parker Stevenson
#46. Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline
French Montana
#47. Will Smith. He's been my career idol for years and years. I used to sit back and watch and study 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' over and over. It's the only TV show that I've watched all the way through maybe five times.
Jessie Usher
#48. When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.
Mark Batterson
#49. Yeah, we've heard that before. This time we mean it. We're not going to sit back and let you treat us like rats anymore. We're done.
James Dashner
#50. I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.
Donald Trump
#51. Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana?" Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look.
"We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit," Augustus said. Insolence was apt to bring out the comic in him.
Larry McMurtry
#52. I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
Gary Coleman
#53. The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.
Colin Mochrie
#54. I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#55. I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
Larry Holmes
#56. You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.
Bruce Aidells
#57. As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
Jack Antonoff
#59. So what causes men to become violent? I'll tell you, boredom, silly rules, muggy screws and pathetic governors. What else can we do - swallow it, wipe our mouths out. You have to fight for your rights. Not sit back and take it.
Stephen Richards
#60. In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
Juliana Hatfield
#61. I sit back in my chair, staring at the wall just behind him, mentally tallying up the minutes I've lost today.
"Leave the coffee."
"I-yes, of course, sorry, sir-.
Tahereh Mafi
#62. some people want just, to sit back and watch the world burn.
R. Douglas Weber
#63. I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.
Richard Harris
#64. Hey, do you want to end this right now?" Her eyes flared. "I wouldn't have asked you out if I'd wanted to end it. Sit back, eat and enjoy. Pretend I'm dead.
David Bischoff
#65. Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
Joel Osteen
#66. Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.
Will Smith
#67. In times of Distress..We have two choices....
Either 'worry' our head off,cry and feel bad
OR
Just sit back,relax our mind and body...and ASK
Let's See How BAD is the BAD LUCK
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#68. We don't mess around with organized conspiracies in this country; we tie our seat-belts and sit back to enjoy the drive.
Andy Paula
#69. I worked extra hard at my job in an effort to feel good about myself and keep depression from overtaking me. I attended the temple often. Those were things I could actually do, rather than just sit back in my misery and hope God would take it away. My
B. Russell McConkie
#70. When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me.
Jonny Lang
#71. When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
Alberto Moravia
#72. I sit back up and try to banish such thoughts from my mind. They're stickier than I expect.
DelSheree Gladden
#73. Eventually we hope to drive among the animals - just as they do in African game parks - but, for now, sit back and enjoy the self-guided tour.
Michael Crichton
#74. Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
Morris Gleitzman
#75. We're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.
Wavy Gravy
#76. Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent.
Amber Heard
#77. ALLY: Ladies, listen: do not settle in life.
Find a way to love yourself; screw anyone else who tells you otherwise.
Life is too short to simply sit back and take what's given to you.
LeTeisha Newton
#78. I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
Tim Ferriss
#79. When moonlight touches you, it's time for a woman to sit back and think, really think, about her life.
Cathy Lamb
#80. I had to learn what my grandfather and mother knew about some of this journey's problems. My job was to sit back and let the Lord work it out according to His will. That's the best way - always!
Deborah L. Parker
#81. That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them yourself. That way you're in control of the situation.
P. J. O'Rourke
#82. In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.
Michio Kaku
#83. Prince Kai?" Peony spun toward her so fast, she tripped on the skirts of Adri's kimono and fell, screaming, onto her bed. "Who's Prince Kai?" she yelled, struggling to sit back up. "Only my future husband!
Marissa Meyer
#84. Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life
Caprice Crane
#85. Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.
Allen West
#86. You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
Eric Betzig
#87. Menstruating doesn't cause pickles to spoil, temples to collapse or food to rot, nor is it contagious, though it would be rather nice to infect the male population with this so-called 'curse' for a month or two, just to sit back and view what I am sure would be a highly entertaining spectacle.
Twinkle Khanna
#88. I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
Vin Scully
#89. On your birthday ... Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday.
Margaret Jones
#90. Broke your jaw once before
Spilt your blood upon the floor
You broke my leg in return
So let's sit back and watch the bed burn
Well love sticks sweat drips
Break the lock if it don't fit
A kick in the teeth is good for some
A kiss with a fist is better than none
Florence Welch
#91. Retribution is tricky ... The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.
Candace Bushnell
#92. Maybe the day will come when I can sit back and be content ... But until that day comes, I intend to stay in the batter's box - I don't let the big guys push me out of there anymore - and keep hammering away.
Hank Aaron
#93. I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself.
Tom Cruise
#94. Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
Ralph Neas
#95. The formula is simple enough. If you want more headaches and misery in your life, keep complaining, they're on the way. If you want happiness and joy, give your attention to the things you are grateful for, and then sit back and watch them grow.
D.S. Luca
#96. There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.
Christopher Monckton
#97. To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
John Glenn
#98. I've been to the dentist a thousand times so I know the drill
I smooth my hair, sit back in the chair
But somehow I still get the chills
Owl City
#99. When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?
Richard Meltzer
#100. I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.
Kelly Thompson
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