Quotes about Sitting
And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.
— Zechariah 5:7
And sitting down, they kept watch over Him there.
— Matthew 27:36
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
— Matthew 27:61
Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,
— Luke 4:20
When those present had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.
— Luke 22:55
Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.
— John 8:2
Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
— Acts 2:2
And again, after two days He will revive us, and the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Hosea vi. 2. Which is now fulfilled by the sitting down of the Son of Man on the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens; according to that to the Ephesians, And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Eph. ii. 6.
— John Bunyan
Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair
— John Milton
During psychoanalysis, the patient must lie down on a couch and tell you things which sometimes are very disagreeable to tell." Whereupon I immediately retorted with the following improvisation: "Now, in logotherapy the patient may remain sitting erect but he must hear things which sometimes are very disagreeable to hear.
— Viktor E. Frankl
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child—wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
— Virginia Woolf
Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life, the same authorities have decided, has nothing whatever to do with sitting still in a chair and thinking. Thought and life are as the poles asunder.
— Virginia Woolf