Rest Quotes
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
-
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
Cesare Pavese
-
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
-
The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.
Lisa Madigan
-
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.
Alfred the Great
-
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.
-
Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
Charles de Lint
-
Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.
Andy Puddicombe
-
The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
Michael Flanders
-
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
-
Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?
Sarah Bernhardt
