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Letter "S" » sit down
«If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.»
«How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.»
«Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
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«Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
sit, sit down, stand, stand up
«Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.»
«A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
| Keywords:
diplomat, head waiter, occasionally, sit down, These Days, waiter, waiters
«And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.»
«It's quite simple, (public speaking) Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
ending, grammatical, public speaking, sentence, sit down
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