Rest Quotes - page 3

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. (Helen Hayes)
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. View quote
Alice Walker
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. View quote
Willa Cather
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. View quote
Woody Allen
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. View quote
Hermann Hesse
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. View quote
William Cowper
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, till half mankind were, like himself, possest. (William Cowper)
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. View quote
Amelia Earhart
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. View quote
Ray Bradbury
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. View quote
Pauline Kael
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. View quote
George Steiner
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. View quote
Will Rogers
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. View quote
André Gide
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. View quote
Euripides
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. View quote
Antonio Porchia