Rest Quotes - page 4

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)
God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man. View quote
Leopold Kronecker
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. View quote
John Milton
We were together. I forget the rest. View quote
Walt Whitman
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. View quote
Jean Cocteau
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. View quote
Voltaire
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where. View quote
Robert Bridges
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. View quote
Isaac Newton
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. View quote
Isaac Newton
...it is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. (Jerome)
I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning. View quote
Rosemary Sutcliff
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots. View quote
Tom Perrotta
The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here. View quote
Hermann Maier
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. View quote
Diana Vreeland
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations. View quote
Jasmine Guy
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. View quote
David Dinkins
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. View quote
John Lennon
Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry. View quote
John Lennon
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. (William Hazlitt)
Our nature consists in movement absolute rest is death. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. View quote
Blaise Pascal
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. View quote
Tennessee Williams