#sits

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cannot #civilization #country #crucial #down

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football. ↗

— David Gill

#assess #board #coming #down #european

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#big #deception #flowing #god #his

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#ceremonies #day #dead #gratitude #honor

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#darkest #down #earning #get #hour

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#carefully #death #deserved #dimensions #experienced

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#children #did #enjoyed #i #most

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#bands #gigs #going #i #knowing

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#academy #academy award #actually #award #could