Rest Quotes

• The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Sleeping
  • Remove
  • Snae

• Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Rest
  • Difficulties
  • Conquered

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

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Faith
  • Spiritual
  • Labor

• As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

  

  Fadi Ghandour
  • Life
  • World
  • College

• 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

• I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Rest
  • Lies
  • Wants

• Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Rest
  • Glad
  • Carry Away

• High and low rest on each other.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • High
  • Rest

• God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
  • Rest
  • Glorious

• You have to go for it. For the rest of us.

  

  Cathy Hopkins
  • Rest
  • To Go

• Ambition has no rest.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Rest
  • Ambition

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

  

  Adam Conover
  • Question
  • Rest
  • Philosophy

• People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Time
  • Piano

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Rest
  • Bird
  • Abyss

• There is only one pleasure - that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Pleasure
  • Misery
  • Being Alive

• It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Good
  • Past

• I made a mistake. I underestimated the influence of Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and the rest of the neocons; I vastly underestimated their disingenuousness and incompetence. So George W. Bush went to war again, and just the way the neocons wanted him to- without significant international backing.

  

  Joe Biden
  • War
  • Rest
  • Mistake

• Since the only things we remember are humiliations and defeats, what is the use of all the rest?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Remember
  • Rest

• Carlyle! Carlyle only raises questions he cannot answer, and seems best contented if he can make the rest of us as discontented as himself; and all the others, all, that is, who have any power at all, fight beside religion, either as if it were not worth saving, or as if it had nothing to do with them.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Power
  • Rest

• Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Free
  • Rest

• Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Heart
  • Rest
  • Fence

• Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • American
  • History
  • Rest

• Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

  

  Carol Orsborn
  • Needs
  • Place
  • Everybody

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