Top 100 Sits Quotes
#1. When I left SNL, I gave Seth a badge of courage, like Dorothy give to the Cowardly Lion ... He kept it in his pocket during "Update" until he didn't need it anymore. Now it sits in a box on his desk at Late Night.
Amy Poehler
#2. The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.
Ravi Zacharias
#3. After arriving on the ancestral soil I figured out pretty quickly why that [Italian] heritage swamps all competition. It's a culture that sweeps you in, sits you down in the kitchen, and feeds you so well you really don't want to leave.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ears and in my small body.
Dee Williams
#5. Godlike the man who
sits at her side, who
watches and catches
that laughter
which (softly) tears me
to tatters: nothing is
left of me, each time
I see her ...
Catullus
#6. My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.
Khalil Gibran
#7. I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice ... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.
Lynsey Addario
#8. Demons smell like ass - nasty ass that slithers down your throat, finds your gag reflex, and sits on it with authority.
Kevin Hearne
#9. No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
Aminatta Forna
#10. Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
Aeschylus
#11. And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.
Peter Krause
#12. loving you was like throwing a lasso around a tornado i tried to hold on to you took a ride on a tilt-a-whirl that sits on top of the world i thought i could show you i've always been afraid of flying but you can't blame a girl for trying
The Band Perrry
#13. If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.
Winston Churchill
#14. Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.
Pete Hamill
#15. A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
Michael Frayn
#16. I am not the kind of person who just sits back and lets other people take all the risks!
Veronica Roth
#17. No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
Mitch Albom
#18. There are things I didn't see before, like how nice it is to have someone around. Not the white knight whisking you away, but the fellow who sits at your table every night and tells you what he is thinking.
Paula McLain
#19. But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it?
"That is not faith. That is hate." He sighed. "And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens.
Mitch Albom
#20. The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. I'm on Facebook and the Internet EVERY DAY NUMEROUS TIMES A DAY.Sorry about the shouting but I can't help myself. My mother said her dog (a lapdog) never sits on my lap because I always have the laptop on it.
Franny Armstrong
#22. And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river.
Rumi
#23. I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.
Vandana Shiva
#24. How many years threaded on a needle of blood? Hands slack on lap he sits looking out at the winter dawn with the cancelled eyes of junk.
William S. Burroughs
#25. On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.
Billy Connolly
#26. A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.
Pam Brown
#27. A man who sits hopelessly needs hope to get up more than he needs legs.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.
Jonathan Larson
#29. I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
Spalding Gray
#30. He'll probably pick you up in a limo filled with fucking roses. I hope he sits on a thorn. - Dylan Mead
H.R. Willaston
#31. Remembering a dream is almost as hard as catching a bird in your hand, but sometimes it's as if the bird comes and sits on your shoulder of its own free will.
Jostein Gaarder
#32. If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.
Neal Cassady
#35. Creativty is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
Gary D. Schmidt
#36. You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
Andrew Cuomo
#37. As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.
Michael Faraday
#38. Then he's got one shelf where all the personal stuff sits, as if quarantined,
Ben H. Winters
#39. A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#40. Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
Cornelia Funke
#41. The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.
Anonymous
#42. I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.
Jeff Kinney
#43. I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two.
Stephen Lang
#44. The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
Peter Eisenman
#45. I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.
Creed Bratton
#46. Yo QT. r u there? I dart Kika a glance. "What does that mean? He called me a Q-tip?" Kika laughs and sits next to me. "Read it out loud. It will make more sense." "Yo-Q-T ru there. Q ... T ... ?" "Q
Anne Eliot
#47. The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
Grace Abbott
#49. Sorrow, the heart must bear,
Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
Many a circumstance, at least,
Touches the very breast.
For those
Whom any sent away,
he knows:
And in the live man's stead,
Armor and ashes reach
The house of each.
Robert Browning
#50. The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.
Avi
#51. He sits next to me and puts his arm on the back of my chair, leaning close. I don't stare back
I refuse to stare back.
I stare back.
Veronica Roth
#52. You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
Princess Diana
#53. The changes are coming fast and blind now, and in your skull sits an hourglass with a grain size hole through which numb seconds are sliding.
Mary Karr
#54. It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can't tell you how many people have had this syndrome ... the 'Old Hag Syndrome.' Apparently, there's this little old lady who comes into your room at night, sits on your chest and tries to suffocate you. You can Google her - she'll pop up. She's out there.
George Noory
#55. I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
Doris Lessing
#56. The Wine of Love
The wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long:
Sits long and ariseth drunken,
But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
That great rich Vine.
James Thomson
#57. As soon as Jesus sits on his throne he's gonna rule the world with a rod of iron. That means he's gonna make the ACLU do what he wants them to. That means you're not gonna have to ask if you can pray in public school. We will live by the law of God and no other law.
John Hagee
#58. On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf
#59. I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.
Tommy Shaw
#60. I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.
Joyce Carol Oates
#61. I look forward to the day the cross sits discarded beside the swastika as just another reminder of the dangers of blind faith.
Craig Smith
#62. The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.
Seth Rogen
#63. How catastrophic is it when the church herself becomes secularized and expressive individualism sits in the driver's seat in the church's life and mission. When the church has lost connection with Christ her living head, she loses her soul.
Harold L. Senkbeil
#64. Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.
David Bowie
#65. Classy.' Mara shines the flashlight on my chest as she climbs into the beached boat and sits across from me.
'It was either this ["Bass Man" sweatshirt] or "Master Baiter". Or freezing to death.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#66. Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Alan Lightman
#67. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
Scott Ian
#68. The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
John Keats
#69. When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.
Ibn Ata Allah
#70. The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.
Dada Bhagwan
#71. A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
Frederick Douglass
#73. Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work ... where crime is concerned, she's the goods.
Agatha Christie
#74. The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale ...
Vera Nazarian
#75. A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
#76. Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.
Theophile Gautier
#77. ... [Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.
Richard Linklater
#78. Dev catches me in my moment of triumph, and for an instant, a weird, wicked gleam passes over his features. Great, now he'll think I was jealous. I take in the broken ceiling and the huge chunk of it that sits on the floor.
Yeah, okay, maybe I was.
E.J. Mellow
#79. Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.
Henri Poincare
#80. I love the dog. She comes for drives with me in the back of my car. Darby is not aggressive or judgmental. She just is. That's what I love about her. She sits there and watches 'The Fugitive' with me.
Sarah Bolger
#81. Who can detect lies except an omniscient almighty that sits in the sky and watches us from the firmament?
S.A. David
#82. Well, then
our course is chosen
spread the sail
Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well
Look to the helm, good master
many a shoal
Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
Walter Scott
#83. A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
Chanakya
#84. Sits on playground bench. Watches kid 1. Looks around for kid 2. Panics. Sees kid 2. Looks for kid 1. Panics. Sees kid 1. Looks for kid 2. Panics.
Kate Hall
#85. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran
#86. Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.
Cecelia Ahern
#87. For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place.
Daniel Boulud
#88. I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.
Nicholas Hoult
#89. These guys sit in the Senate - even though he misses most of the votes, by the way - but he sits in the Senate and listens to this stuff all the time.I'm out working, producing jobs all over the place and building a great company.
Donald Trump
#90. Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.
Bill Whittle
#91. Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.
Sydney Pollack
#92. We had about seven real cats at any one time on the set, and two animatronic, (one that sits and one that lays down) and two stuffed animal type cats that we used for rehearsals or any sort of silly torture we had to instill on the poor guy.
Melissa Joan Hart
#93. I have a room whereinto no one enters
Save I myself alone:
There sits a blessed memory on a throne,
There my life centres.
Christina Rossetti
#94. The motel owner, who walked up when the police car came screaming in with lights flashing, takes me into the office. He sits me down with a mug of coffee. The mug is blue and reads in white lettering, Warning: Murderous Until Caffeinated.
Suzanna J. Linton
#95. The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
Bill Vaughan
#96. nothing was ever accomplished by someone who sits in their apartment alone waiting for life to begin.
Jessica Pan
#97. He sits next to me, the veins on his neck and arms seeming more prominent than they did earlier. His mouth compresses, igniting his eyes with esoteric light, pulling me into the magnetic undertow.
Poppet
#98. Even the most misfitting child
Who's chanced upon the library's worth,
Sits with the genius of the Earth
And turns the key to the whole world.
Hear It Again
Ted Hughes
#99. Verily,' said Gandalf, now in a loud voice, keen and clear, 'that way lies our hope, where sits our greatest fear. Doom hangs still on a thread. Yet hope there is still, if we can but stand unconquered for a little while.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#100. Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.
L. Ron Hubbard
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