Top 1200 Sitting Quietly Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and simple.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

What I hate more than sitting out is being on the floor and not being 100 percent. You know you can make this move, or guard this guy better, but something is hampering you from doing it, and in the NBA. finals I hate that more than sitting out.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Love comes quietly... but you know when it is there because suddenly... you are not alone anymore... and there is no sadness in you.

I was never going to be one to just go away quietly and get on with things in the shadows.

Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist, I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base." Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers, Bumped into my high school teachers, They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers. Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features. I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

When you put Listerine in your mouth, it hurts. Germs do not go quietly.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I was a bit nervous when I first entered the Indian dressing room. Some of the players sitting out there had 10 years of experience and were sitting in front of me. But then Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri told me that there are no seniors or juniors in the team. So I could open up to them easily and irritate them with my questions.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.

I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story.

In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.

I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing tonight?' I'm sitting home watching it. But it's OK. But if you go to Europe, there are a lot of young, independent labels that's doing soul music. You might call them retro because they're young and they're trying to imitate somebody. But I ain't retro.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I’ll be perceived.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

I've always spent a lot of time in movie theaters, kind of absorbing anything I can. I just love sitting in the dark, and watching the flickering image up there. Just sitting in a movie theater alone is inspiring to me. It takes a pretty bad movie to drain the magic out of that - but Lord knows, those movies exist.

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

Your strength is how calmly, quietly and peacefully you face life.

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

Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

I also had Elliot Gould and Martin Short and Nasim Pedrad - let alone Zack Pearlman who is going to be a huge star, as is Seaton Smith - out there and I love writing for them and just sitting back and watching them be excellent. And when you are sitting across from Elliott Gould sharing a scene it just raises your game.