Quotes of Sat - somelinesforyou

“ I think Carville said things about right-wing-Christian-this-or-that, and he said it two or three times in the show prior to when I sat down. To be honest with you, he's a scary guy. ”

- Stephen Baldwin

“ You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! ”

- Oliver Cromwell

“ The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ”

- Sarah Brown

“ But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. ”

- George H. W. Bush

“ 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

“ On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. ”

- Patricia Cornwell

“ No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But… I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role… I love being with people. ”

- Princess Diana

“ We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. ”

- John Hope

“ He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help. ”

- Walter Kerr

“ One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. ”

- Clifford Odets

“ He sat on the fence so long that the iron entered into his soul. ”

- Lloyd George

“ Here's wishing your Black Friday injuries aren't so severe that you can't click a mouse on Cyber Monday. ”

- Unknown

“ I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. ”

- Edward O. Wilson

“ A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man. ”

- e. e. cummings

“ I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there. ”

- John Flansburgh

“ A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? ”

- Edward Hersey Richards

“ And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. ”

- Anthony Powell

“ Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy. ”

- Henry Gratton

“ I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. ”

- Dodie Smith

“ It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen. ”

- Elinor Smith

“ It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ". ”

- Francis Bacon

“ No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at. ”

- Sir Arthur Helps

“ One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse. ”

- James Hagerty

“ One evening I sat Beauty on my knees — And I found her bitter — And I reviled her. ”

- Arthur Rimbaud

“ Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted. ”

- Liza Cody

“ 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

“ We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. ”

- A. E. Housman
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