Top 1200 Sitting Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.

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

In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on that lid a long time, trying continuously to hold down everything beneath it. To become a witness means that you have finally jumped off the lid; now you will only stand aside and will not do anything. Now you will no longer repress, now you will just witness. So everything suppressed will arise, all the repressions will catch fire; you will find flames leaping where there were only ashes.

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

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

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

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

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

On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, companions in awakening from fear.

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

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

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

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

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

On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it into a learning opportunity. It's not enough to just tell your child, "Do your homework." It's not enough to help with the homework. You go to the school and learn how they do math, so that you can tutor your child in math.

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

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

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

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.

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

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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

I think for a lot of guys when they get taken down it's like the end of the world and they freak out about it but training with the team I have here, I have been in a lot of bad positions before and I'm no slouch on the ground either, so if it goes down there, I'm comfortable and can win the fight down there or get back to my feet and end it there.

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

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.

I am very scared of sitting without work.

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

Rambunctious and delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting.

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

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

I like to work. It gets boring sitting around.

Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly, she'd been there before. It was obvious in the easy way she shrugged off her bag, letting it fall with a thump onto the sand, before sitting down beside me. She didn't pull me close for a big bonding hug or offer up some saccharine words of comfort, both of which would have sent me running for sure. Instead she gave me nothing but her company, realizing even before I did this that this, in fact, was just what I needed.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

When you're down, when you've been kicked down in the street and then kicked a few more times until you're bleeding and your teeth are out, then you only have up to go. You get reborn again, and expectations aren't so great because they've taken you away. It's beautiful to be down there. It's so beautiful!

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

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

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

I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

I am a complete workaholic and hate sitting idle.

Let's face it; this is a star-based industry. I can't be sitting at home, can I?

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

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.

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

That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.

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

What happened in Cuba, just to cut to the chase, their death rate from diabetes went down 50%, their death rate from heart attacks and stroke went down approximately 30% and all-cause mortality went down 18% while they adhered to the system. Then they opened up their pipeline again from Venezuela, and their health improvements went away.

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

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