Top 100 Sit Still Quotes
#1. I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.
Nora Ephron
#2. If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.
John Ratey
#3. He kicked in the door with one casual blow, leaned in, and said, "Please don't run. I'm not in a good mood. Better if you just sit still."
He cocked his head and listened, then smiled. "Ah," he said. "And there he goes. You two wait here.
Rachel Caine
#4. Novices in the arts think you have to start with inspiration to write or paint or compose. In fact, you only have to start. Inspiration comes if you continue. Make the commitment to sit still in solitude several hours a day and inevitably your muse will visit.
Erica Jong
#5. I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them.
Karen Lord
#6. You cannot be who you are not.
Simply rest, sit still and unknot.
You may even try to emulate and inspire,
But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#7. Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.
Martin Luther
#8. I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.
And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience - a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
D.H. Lawrence
#10. There's a Zen proverb that states "If you're too busy to sit still for 10 minutes, you need to sit still for an hour.
J.D. Yoder
#11. I have not healed so much as learned to sit still and wait while pain does its dancing work, trying not to panic or twist in ways that make the blades tear deeper, finally infecting the wounds.
Lauren Slater
#12. I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.
Ashton Kutcher
#13. It's hard for me to sit still. Now if you'll sit me in front of a great old movie, I'll sit still, because I love that, too.
Patty Loveless
#14. I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.
Stephen Sondheim
#15. When it rains God be wantin' us to sit still and take notice.
Julie Cantrell
#16. When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.
Grace Ogot
#17. Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.
Luther Standing Bear
#18. I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.
Robin Wright
#19. My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;
I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
William Shakespeare
#20. All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#21. With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.
Maria Montessori
#22. I sit still and prepare for the Great Unravelling, but instead find further knots.
Martin Cosgrove
#23. There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Carroll
#24. When you were talking to me here, I couldn't sit still; when you cried here, when you tormented yourself because you were jilted, because your love was slighted and disregarded, I felt that in my heart there was so much love for you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#25. Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.
Max Lucado
#26. If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
Valerie June
#28. No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it." The
Jane Austen
#29. I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#30. At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely ... Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. I've seen many people with status, but I'm still looking for a happy one. Status won't sit still under you; you have to continually fight to keep from sinking.
Isaac Asimov
#33. The most interesting thing I learned in church was how to sit still for long periods of time without falling asleep.
J.T. Geissinger
#34. Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Aldous Huxley
#35. For I know I shall be interrupted
I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.
Dodie Smith
#36. I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that.
Stephanie Seymour
#37. What do you learn in school, Hans Thomas?" Dad asked. "To sit still," I replied. "It's so difficult that we spend many years learning to do it.
Jostein Gaarder
#38. There is a part of you, you see now, that is reckless. A part of you that still always wants to die but never really wants to go after it.
So it makes mistakes instead. Or it says, when trouble comes in and has lemonade, I wonder what this will look like. If I sit still. If I do nothing.
Alexander Chee
#39. Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?
Samuel I. Prime
#40. You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. I don't like to sit still for long at all, which has probably helped me along the way, and partly why I was drawn to the heat of a restaurant kitchen. The rush of service means that you're always on your toes and keeps a chef pretty active.
Curtis Stone
#42. People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats - the rich ... the banks ... the Chinese.
Bill Bonner
#43. The one time I tried to get her to watch Pride and Prejudice, she hadn't been able to sit still. Granted, it was the six-hour version, but come on. What's not to love?
Alyxandra Harvey
#44. Freeman had exercised what the dapper man called his best talent: Sitzfleisch. Freeman had explained that this German word had no equivalent in English, and literally translated as "Sitflesh." It meant the ability to sit still and work quietly.
Gregory Benford
#45. If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
John Locke
#47. Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.
Ellen DeGeneres
#48. Often in life we get so caught up in what we don't have that we forget to be grateful for what we do have. We get so busy asking and seeking and begging and pursuing that we never take time out simply to be. To sit still
Mandy Hale
#49. Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still
Mos Def
#50. The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.
Jacques Barzun
#51. Old age can be a deceiver. My knees ache when I walk, but if I sit still, I do not feel so different from the girl I was.
Phyllis T. Smith
#52. Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)
Richard Baxter
#53. Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.
Carl Sandburg
#54. It was a lie of convenience. The truth takes about ten minutes to tell, most people can't sit still that long
Robert Kearney
#55. Sometimes, a man must muster all of his courage simply to sit still. How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend? How much?
Christopher Moore
#56. Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Walter Savage Landor
#57. There's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.
Daphne Du Maurier
#58. When I watch films or tv that I've done, I get very restless and tend to not sit still.
Eric Mabius
#59. I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.
Jack White
#60. People wanna give you a $5 contribution online, but they have a million other things to do. But getting them to just sit still for 45 seconds and go in there and make the donation is, like, the hardest thing in the world.
John Sarbanes
#61. Long-dead men leered at them from heavy gilt frames and Eliza thought how ghastly it must be to have one's portrait painted, to sit still for so long, all so that a layer of oneself could be left forever on a canvas,
Kate Morton
#62. It only took a few minutes, but it seemed like longer with everyone watching him. The silence was heavy, and for so many ADHD demigods to sit still listening for that long, Jason knew the story must have sounded pretty wild. He ended with Hera's visit right before the meeting.
Rick Riordan
#63. My Favourite hobby is to sit still and convert oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. Love to Live.
Brahmananda Patra
#64. We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
Lewis Thomas
#65. We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot
#66. When you are frightened, don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage.
Grace Ogot
#67. To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
Charles Bukowski
#68. Don't fit in. Don't sit still. Don't ever try to do less than you are.
Angelina Jolie
#69. Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.
Rodolfo Costa
#70. Gerard's spirit animal is a gazelle - that's how he's always answered - Frankie would definitely be a wolverine, I would be a shark because of my inability to sit still, and Ray? Ray would be ... I'm thinking super intelligent, super articulate, I would think owl.
Mikey Way
#71. Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
G. Stanley Hall
#72. He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
Wendy Walker
#73. I'm one of the
freaks, the faggots,
the geeks, the savages,
rogues, rebels, dissident devils,
artists, martyrs, infidels ...
do we sit still
under attack?
or do we start pushing back?
never back up
never back down
& FIGHT.
Otep Shamaya
#74. This is another day, O Lord ...
If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely.
If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly.
If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently.
And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.
Kathleen Norris
#76. There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
Robert W. Service
#78. I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
D.H. Lawrence
#79. All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.
Anthony De Mello
#80. To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. Every
L.M. Montgomery
#81. Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected.
Jarod Kintz
#82. When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
Maya Angelou
#83. Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life.
Mary Engelbreit
#84. The thing about light is that it really isn't yours; it's what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.
Anne Lamott
#85. I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
Madi Diaz
#86. It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.
Josh Malerman
#87. I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off ... I can't sit still too long.
Ellen DeGeneres
#88. All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.
Marty Rubin
#89. And in just this way the days after my father's death became weeks became months in the familiar ceaseless cruelty of time, carrying us ever forward even when we sit still. Time does not pass, pain grows. (p.223)
Niall Williams
#90. You talk too much." "You are a real communicator!" "Stop daydreaming." "You are creative!" "Don't be so bossy." "You are confident!" "Stop wiggling. Sit still." "You were born to move!
Yong Pratt
#91. The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
William Macneile Dixon
#92. Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge
#93. I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.
Al Franken
#94. believe that it's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. The
Josh Malerman
#95. My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.
Susan Boyle
#96. But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window
maybe rearrange all the furniture.
Raymond Carver
#97. I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.
Richard Jeni
#98. When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom
#99. I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#100. How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.
Winston Churchill
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