Rest Quotes

• Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Deep

• I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Hope
  • My Life

• It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Effort
  • Enough
  • Wonderful

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

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • People
  • Rest
  • Sad

• Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest.

  

  Gaston Leroux
  • Rest
  • Spirit
  • Angel

• Heading out to L.A., doing this acting thing. You can't rest on your laurels out there. You finish a film, you don't know how it's going to do. You're talking about that next job, usually.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Job
  • Rest

• I believe in hard work and good decisions and the rest it will come or it doesn't.

  

  Nico Hulkenberg
  • Rest
  • Decisions
  • Come

• The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the rest of the U.K. to be a lender of last resort, and of course be kind to them, doesn't make any sense.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Rest
  • Independent

• It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Health
  • Rest
  • Disease

• I don't think there was any point where I was like, 'I want to be an actor for the rest of my life.' The nice thing about being a kid is you don't have to make those decisions. Then all of a sudden, you blink, and you're 18.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Rest

• There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Power
  • Reality

• And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Rest
  • Labour
  • Conceivable

• When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Rest

• What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Successful

• The abstractions of Einstein's curved space and time gave rise to analogies and pictures that played a new explanatory role. Space and time gave way to space-time, visible light was augmented by images across the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum, and we realised that we could see back towards the apparent beginnings of time.

  

  John D. Barrow
  • Time
  • Light
  • Space

• I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Tears
  • Harmony

• At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Judge

• That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

  

  George Eliot
  • Blessed
  • Advancing
  • Golden Sky

• I'm sure it's the same with yourself that when your relationship is good, it changes the way you view the rest of the world.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Relationship
  • Changes
  • View

• Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

  

  Euripides
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Rest

• Where's the rest of me?

  

  Casey Robinson
  • Rest

• Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Worst

• It would allow them to serve rich communities and ignore the rest.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Rest
  • Ignore
  • Communities

• He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Heart
  • Rest
  • Tears

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