Rest Quotes - page 13

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world. (George Bernard Shaw)
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [indicating her body], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. View quote
Nick Cave
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others. View quote
Emil Cioran
Sometimes I love [acting] but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life. View quote
Kristin Kreuk
The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will.Washington still hasn't learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept. View quote
Paul Craig Roberts
I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me...There's this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don't need to be so tough to protect myself. View quote
Ali Larter
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest. View quote
Cesare Pavese
It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest. View quote
Robert Nozick
All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy. View quote
William Saroyan
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. (Jon Stewart)
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote! View quote
Wilfred Owen
The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke. View quote
Arundhati Roy
[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that – so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it! View quote
Nora Ephron
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's "Rest in the Lord." It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure. View quote
Thomas Eakins
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister-corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used. View quote
Richard Rorty
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest. View quote
Upton Sinclair
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances. (Jay Leno)
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. View quote
Guillermo del Toro
She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
If it's over--if it's really over--then don't let it screw up the rest of your life. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers. View quote
Nicholas Sparks