Rest Quotes

• What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Rest

• I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.'

  

  Edward Enninful
  • People
  • Good
  • Rest

• 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

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

  

  Cathy Hopkins
  • Rest
  • To Go

• 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

• Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Rest
  • Meditation
  • Uncertainty

• I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • God
  • Country
  • Die

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

  

  Michael Flanders
  • Best
  • English
  • Down

• 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

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

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Human
  • Only
  • Monsters

• For too much rest becomes a pain.

  

  Homer
  • Pain
  • Rest
  • Too Much

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

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Rest
  • Lies
  • Wants

• I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • History
  • Rest

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Alfred the Great
  • Alone
  • Rest
  • Toil

• 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

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

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Rest
  • Jesus
  • Depressed

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

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Rest
  • Eternity
  • Slow Down

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

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Rest
  • Wise

• 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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