#sit

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ↗

— George Gallup

#body #chances #could #functions #god

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#attitude #attract #chaotic #create #i

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#bad review #baking #best #cake #having

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#doing #genius #lot #much #nothing

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#chicago #evenings #family #helped #i

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#each #his #own #probably #sits

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#around #critical #describe #distance #experience

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#been #democrats #friends #i #lies

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#explain #i #i write #me #meditation