Best sitting & may Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.”

May Sometimes Next Sound Half Wind Flower Hair Sitting Stores Thee Spares Hook Careless Reap Poppies

Author:John Keats

“An evolutionary biologist and a fundamentalist may see the same chimpanzee sitting in a cage, but in another important way, they do not. And they may approach the details of their lives in very different ways.”

Way May Important Different Approach Sitting Details Different Ways Cages Fundamentalist Biologist Chimpanzees

Author:Peg O'Connor

“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”

May Book Enough Would Be Reading Sound Rooms Powerful Imagine Prove Elements Music Is Sitting Notes Foolish Mysterious Agents Atmosphere Piano Belittle

Book:What to Listen For in Music

Source: What to Listen For in Music

“Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.”

May Long Matter Fronts Prove Sitting Program Screens Beneficial

Author:Sissela Bok

“On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?”

“When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.”

Knows Men May Next Silence He Man Authority Sitting Fruit Uneasy Chromosomes Fruit Flies

Author:Brand Blanshard

“You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"”

Mind Humans May Form Meditation Months Sitting Limitation Human Form

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.”

People Wells Kind May Ideas Three Violence Sitting Tables Democratic All Kinds Three Things Great Idea Umbrella

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.”

May Able Particular Sitting Revolutionary Realising Damnation

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.”

Ifs Men May Seems Lasts Lying Night Hours Morning Study Rich Sitting Warm Awake Prose Prime Apprehension Pascal Prime Of Life

Book:The Condemned Playground

Source: The Condemned Playground

“I'm always sitting down and talking to people that are doing independent features. It depends on the project and the quotient of the people that are involved. There are a lot of different reasons [to do something], like a particular script that resonates with me, in a particular way. It may not so much even be about the part, but what the script has to say.”

People Way May Different Reason Talking Particular Depends Involved Projects Sitting Down And Independent Scripts Features Sitting Down

Author:Jimmy Smits

“I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.”

May Company Thousand Sitting Disappointment New Company

Author:A. C. Benson

“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.”

Ifs Knows May Energy Know How Meditation Minutes Flower Walking Ten Perception Mindfulness Sitting Anger Twenties Embrace Come Up Following Breathing True Nature Walking Meditation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them.”

People Knows Kind May Shows Interesting Gay Sitting Gay People Sitting Around

Author:Lou Reed

“My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with that particular set of characters, I can't help but think about all the ways the book could be different, the small, insignificant tweaks that no one but me would ever notice.”

Ifs Thinking Way May I Can Book Different Character Helping Novel Particular Sitting Spending Finished Shelves Insignificant Spending Time Tweak

Author:Jillian Medoff

“The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.”

Men May Littles Persons Doe Stills Force Justice He Man Sitting Reputation Merit Estates Doing Nothing Neighbour Propriety Sitting Still

Book:The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

Source: The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

“If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you.”

Ifs Way Giving May Kids Advice Dog Fronts Tvs Computer Sitting Ems Hug Couches Better Ways

Author:Maurice Sendak

“It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees Lazarus not with any other righteous man, but in Abraham's bosom. For Abraham was full of love, but the man is convicted of cruelty. Abraham sitting before his door followed after those that passed by, and brought them into his house, the other turned away even them that abode within his gate.”

Men May House Views Rich Doors He Man Sitting Cruelty Gates Exposed Righteous Offended Bosoms Abraham Rich Man Abode Lazarus Righteous Man

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.”

Humans May Has Beens Two Dies Minutes Standards Sitting Function Theater Cease Chairs Flour Buttocks

Author:Michael J. Nelson

“You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.”

Wells May Sitting Dancing Making Love

Book:The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon

Source: The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon

“Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.”

Men May Shows Desire Levels Honor Capable Sitting Excellence Delight Appearance Related Ecstasy Dishes Unworthy Radiance Level Headed

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.”

May Country Care Desire Wise Subjects Sitting Safety Careful Queens Seats Willingness Venture Reign Zeal Desire To Live

Author:Elizabeth I

“I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later.”

Years May Has Beens Said Home Together Moving Mother Found Father Felt Rooms Deals Effort Morning Movement Strange Sitting Distance Spite Sunday Accurate Lamps Earthquakes Sunday Morning

Author:Inge Lehmann

“Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.”

May Teacher Sitting Strongest Allies Within Reach Your Strong

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.”

May Home Stars Sitting Western Finals Conferences Basketball Motivation All Stars Basketball Success

Author:Stephen Curry

“Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.”

People May Together Moving Sin Knowing Balance Sitting Let Me Suspicion Maxims

Book:The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

“It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.”

Looks May Two Emotion Player Possibility Sitting Chess Boards Actuality Calculating Chess Players Kaleidoscope Seething

Author:Shankarananda

“The good life may mean doing some things that do not feel comfortable. It may mean sitting long hours just with yourself as you begin to listen to your own questions. That was the reality for me when I was 27, and it was really terrifying.”

Feels May Mean Long Reality Hours Comfortable Sitting Good Life Long Hours

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.”

People Thinking May States House Left President White United United States Groups Sitting Wings Radical White House Right Wing Referring Left Wing

Author:Sidney Blumenthal

“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”

“I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.”

Ifs Wells May Wisdom Might Artist Poor Feet Students Lessons One Day Sitting Giants Yearning Begging

Author:Rod Taylor

“A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.”

Thinking Should May Able Lying Sound Sitting Advantage Chairs More Time Sitting In A Chair

Book:Daughter of the Blood: The Black Jewels Trilogy

Source: Daughter of the Blood: The Black Jewels Trilogy

“Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.”

Men May Made Facts Wisdom Science Wise Words Of Wisdom Sitting Knees Nonsense Elsewhere Sheer Indulge Indulge In Dummy

Author:Aldous Huxley

“You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.”

Giving May Waiting Attitude Circumstances Sitting Praise Get Up Sitting Around Good Attitude Waiting On God Sitting Around Waiting

Author:Joel Osteen

“There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.”

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver’s head. ‘Hey, bus driver,’ I said. ‘Can I smoke?’ ‘May I,’ said the bus driver. ‘I love you,’ I said.”

May Said Lasts Saws Love You Fronts Sitting Empty Clouds Hey Evening Smoke Rising Drivers Bus Downtown Bus Driver

Book:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.”

“Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible suffering of beautiful princesses, it holds its head up and its eyes open; but if the mother begins to speak of happiness and sunshine, the little one closes its eyes and falls asleep with its head against her breast. . . . I am a child like that, too. Others may like stories of flowers and sunshine; but I choose the dark nights and sad destinies.”

“Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.”

May Sitting Bus

Author:Rosa Parks

“How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.”

“Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.”

Source: Rosie Dunne

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.”

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.' 'The man's eighty-nine', muttered Jem. 'He may well have the problem anyway.”

Men Trying Wells May Said Done Problem Remember Lying Names Left Force Promise Sitting Nine Charm Hats Eighty Crushed I Promise Dickens Jem Jem Carstairs Clockwork Prince Sitting Up

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

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