Top 1200 Sitting Alone Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I love watching other women when I'm sitting at a cafe.

...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.

Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name? Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you? Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're alone. Idris: We are alone. The Doctor: Oh. Come on then, Sexy.

You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

Rambunctious and delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting.

If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

There's nothing better than sitting in a hot tub.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I've known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine--that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

It's easy to have chemistry when nobody is sitting on the bench.

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.

Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.

I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling me they feel so connected to the record. I think as an artist, all you really want out of your album is to feel like you're not alone.Because you wrote it for a reason. You wrote it because you're feeling some kind of emotion that you had to get out in the world. And if fans say, "that makes me feel like I'm not alone", then you get to say back to them, "Well, you telling me that makes me feel like I'm not alone either".

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

In a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. That won’t happen unless we have bred a social in tune animal, that’s what a dog is. That’s why they got so much trouble with separation anxiety – you leave them home alone and they’re chewing up the house and stuff. A lot of dogs don’t handle being home alone very well.

I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.

I like short records in general that you can swallow in one sitting.

Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

I am very scared of sitting without work.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

There's nothing like sitting and watching the Masters on TV.

I've never been one to enjoy just sitting around.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing, Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring; But Man alone has skill and power to send The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend; 'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

I shake my legs constantly when I'm sitting crossed legged.

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

I am a complete workaholic and hate sitting idle.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

I have so many books that are sitting around half-read.

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

Sitting let me learn what the NFL is all about.

This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first time for six or seven days and going "Wow, this is exhausting," because when you're not around little ones for a long time, you forget about how much work that is. So I came in and started writing the story that became this movie ['PARENTAL GUIDANCE'].

You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?

Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.

Nobody dreams of being on the bench or sitting in the corner.