Top 259 Seated Quotes & Sayings

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

It is a deep-seated belief on the part of almost all Americans that their successes will be better assured as they help to build the success of others

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

I'm already hot, you could say I'm pre-heated. If money talks, mine's telling your's to 'be seated

Ladies be seated, the party has only begun.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

We are not going to put a law enforcement official onto a plane to take them off... to remove a booked, paid, seated passenger. We can't do that.

While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around.

The way in which you carry yourself, even when seated at a desk, matters.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

Ladies be seated, a laugh doesn't cost you a dime.

Ladies be seated, and let's have a wonderful time!

Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.

In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if someone's husband were seated next to someone else's very young girlfriend. But dinners with couples seated next to one another are always deadly dull, which is why there are almost no good dinner parties in the entire state of California.

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.

Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, "Oh, my God, I've arrived".

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our body or soul go to heaven? What was the name of the book? The Da Vinci Code. Who is seated at the last supper? Well, as brilliant as Da Vinci was, he didn't know anymore about who was seated at the last super if there ever was a last super than you or I or Yogi Berra. Well, no one is bringing anything new to the table.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.

I'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful experience. It was such a fully realized show.

It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the basis of Futurist theory, in no way required one to paint nothing but speeding cars or ballerinas in action; for a person who is seated, or an inanimate object, though apparently static, could be considered dynamically and suggest dynamic forms. I may mention as an example the 'Portrait of Madame S.' (1912) and the 'Seated Woman' (1914).

I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living