Rest Quotes

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

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

Have a nice rest of your life.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

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

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest—blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says—Work; and to us it says—Seem! To you it says—As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says—Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.