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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Government, Behind, Invisible

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost

Dance, Secret, Knows

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Down, Everybody, Late

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

Top, Tree, Ancestors

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Down, Everyone, Later

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sweet, Darkness, Solitude

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

Life, Money, Down

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
Dick Gregory

Good, God, Mother

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
Lady Gaga

Someone, Person, Friends

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

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

Great, Down, Country

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf

Fellow, Agony, Observant

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. Bush

Once, Found, Iraq

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
Vivien Leigh

Words, Place, Sea

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Else, Often

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy

Working, Might, Redneck

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber

Success, Home, Smile

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Time, True, Down

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Person, Away, Himself

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad

Keep, Butterfly, Dirt

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
John Podhoretz

Politics, While, President

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
Doris Lessing

Fame, Writers, Worrying

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Fact, Court, Cases

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Jeremy Taylor

Alone, Heart, Fly

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Fear, Greatest, Feeling

Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.
Matt Damon

Different, Same, Against

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West

Love, Truth, Real

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

Book, Put, Keep

I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.
Curtis Stone

Sleep, Everything, Night

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
Harlan Coben

Hard, Find, Else

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