Rest Quotes

• The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

  

  John Berger
  • World
  • Rest
  • Poverty

• It is in the interests of all of us - the United States, China and the rest of the world - to make sure that the rules of the road are upheld. These rules and norms are part of the foundation of regional stability, and they have allowed nations across the region, including China, to grow and prosper.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Rest
  • Road

• Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • People
  • Power
  • Powerful

• The legacy of the great monotheistic religions is the expectation of a single over-arching explanation for the Universe. ...There is no logical reason why the Universe should not contain surds of arbitrary elements that do not relate to the rest.

  

  John D. Barrow
  • Great
  • Why
  • Single

• I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Waiting

• Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

  

  Don Marquis
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

  

  Donald Miller
  • World
  • Believe
  • Alone

• The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it’s blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn’t solve anything.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Light

• I'm not going to defend myself the rest of my life.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Defense

• Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

  

  John Marston
  • Rest
  • Safety

• I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Good
  • Long
  • Remember

• And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • People
  • Joy
  • Rest

• We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.

  

  John Flavel
  • Work
  • May
  • Soul

• Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what you're not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • Rest

• There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

  

  Alan Ayckbourn
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.

  

  SZA
  • Different
  • Small
  • Rest

• The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Business
  • Circus

• In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • Small
  • Rest

• I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Support
  • Gay
  • Lesbian

• Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Children
  • Alligators
  • Abusers

• For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Children
  • Rest
  • Snow

• And behind their frail partitionsBusiness women lie and soak,Seeing through the draughty skylightFlying clouds and railway smoke.Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones,Lap your loneliness in heat,All too soon the tiny breakfast,Trolley-bus and windy street!

  

  John Betjeman
  • Women
  • Breakfast
  • Clouds

• Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

  

  David O. McKay
  • Rest

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