“ People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice. ”
- Frank Romer- Copy
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“ The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity! ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it. ”
- Albert Brooks- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
- 2.7K
“ We sit at breakfast, we sit on the train on the way to work, we sit at work, we sit at lunch, we sit all afternoon a hodgepodge of sagging livers, sinking gallbladders, drooping stomachs, compressed intestines and squashed pelvic organs. ”
- John Button Jr.- Copy
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“ We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
- 400
“ You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. ”
- Ellen Metcalf- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3K
“ Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near that the smoke might annoy. ”
- Amy Vanderbilt- Copy
- 1.8K
“ To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. ”
- Charles William Stubbs- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 1.4K
“ How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 547
“ Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life. ”
- M. R. Vincent- Copy
- 273
“ If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. ”
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 2.5K
“ One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 2.8K
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