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«One evening I sat Beauty on my knees /And I found her bitter /And I reviled her.»
«She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.»
«When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - that was the longest step forward in the history of law»
«On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.»
«The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.»
Author: Sarah Brown | Keywords: hen, hens, Sat
«Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.»
«She was a perfect lady - just sat in her seat and stared»
Author: Eudora Welty (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: Sat, seat, stared
«There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.»
Author: Marilyn Monroe (Actress) | Keywords: lights, Sat
«Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence.»
«The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Cats | Keywords: hot, lid, lids, Sat, stove, The Cat

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