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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
La Flavour's 'Mandolay' is a disco classic - I dare you to sit still while listening to it.
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
I'd definitely have some butterflies if the day ever came when I'd get to sit down with Oprah.
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
I think the 'Saw' universe, the 'Saw' brand, is too big to just let it just sit there on a shelf.
I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.
Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
I've got a short torso and long legs, so I tend to wear longer tops and things that sit on my hips.
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I'm determined to get better and better.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
WTO is the only multilateral system in which developed and developing countries sit together at par.
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.
There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.
You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream.
My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.
I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
I have a beautiful desk. I rarely sit behind it. That's not where my job is. My job is in the community.
I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.
I always sit in the back of a plane. It's much safer. You never hear of a plane backing into a mountain!