Rest Quotes

• High and low rest on each other.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • High
  • Rest

• I grew up in a small town in coastal South Carolina. Where I'm from, the people are known as Gullah people. They're some of the first freed slaves that lived on their own, without being attached to the rest of the U.S.

  

  Brian Stelfreeze
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that's all I would do. It's my favorite movie to make. There's something about being a cowboy.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Cowboy

• Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Heart
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Illness
  • Amusement

• So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • People
  • Long
  • Fear

• I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Rest

• People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • People
  • Rest

• Faith is our form of labor. This work is required to get us back into spiritual rest.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Faith
  • Spiritual
  • Labor

• Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

  

  Sophocles
  • Future
  • Rest
  • Claim

• The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Hand
  • Rest

• I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest.

  

  George Murphy
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Rest

• To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • Rest

• Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

  

  Neel Mukherjee
  • Work
  • Business
  • Revolution

• It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • People
  • Rest
  • Sad

• If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.

  

  Bob Stinson The Replacements
  • Work
  • Rest
  • Best

• That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

  

  Adam Conover
  • Question
  • Rest
  • Philosophy

• You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Work
  • Rest
  • Worry

• I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Book

• You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Police

• One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Country
  • Rest

• ...organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Up
  • Church
  • Rest

• And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Rest
  • Bird
  • Abyss

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