Rest Quotes

• O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

  

  William Blake
  • Song
  • Dance
  • Voice

• 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

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

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Rest
  • Lies
  • Wants

• We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Work
  • Like
  • Right

• Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Human
  • Only
  • Monsters

• 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

• 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'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

• 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

• A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Rest
  • Novel
  • Argument

• The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

  

  Michael Flanders
  • Best
  • English
  • Down

• Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Rest
  • Wise

• The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.

  

  Ezra Hall Gillett
  • Enjoyed
  • Churches
  • Commencement

• Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Body
  • Mountains
  • Anatomy

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

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Rest
  • Difficulties
  • Conquered

• 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

• Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Country
  • Rest

• Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Rest
  • Eternity
  • Slow Down

• Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Rest
  • Meditation
  • Uncertainty

• Look within, get depressed; Look around, get distressed; Look to Jesus, find perfect rest.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Rest
  • Jesus
  • Depressed

• The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Life
  • Death
  • Genius

• Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

  

  Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
  • Peace
  • Rest
  • Karma

• All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

  

  Alfred the Great
  • Alone
  • Rest
  • Toil

• All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

  

  Charles Gates, Jr.
  • Business
  • Rest
  • Institutions

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