#sit

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. ↗

— William Banting

#adds #am #any #bulk #comfortable

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it. ↗

— Red Barber

#close #gets #how #matter #pitch

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle? ↗

— Anthony A. Williams

#got #here #i #just #know

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it? ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#back #business #buy #come #customers

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#eat #found #i #man #nervous

It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#itself #just #like #lot #make

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#just #like #love #made #new

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#after #china #clinton #clinton administration #continue

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#conversation #daily #guide #instrument #must

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ↗

— Saint Basil

#existence #forget #necessary #necessary condition #opposite