Rest Quotes - page 5

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. (Colin Powell)

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

Leonard Bernstein

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

Georges Rouault

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Robert Jordan

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

Samuel Johnson

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

Martin Feldstein

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

Martin Feldstein

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Ambrose Bierce

The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old measurements.

George Bernard Shaw

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? (Steven Wright)

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Steve Jobs

I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!

George W. Bush

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

Robert E. Howard

Here lies my wife here let her lie Now she's at rest, and so am I.

John Dryden

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

William Cobbett

[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Nora Ephron

Vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of compassion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

Morarji Desai

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

We shall march prospering,not thro' his presence Songs may inspirit us,not from his lyre Deeds will be done,while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

Robert Browning

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. (Lillian Hellman)

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

Ernest Hemingway

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.

Charles Wolfe

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Alfred Jules Ayer

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

Herodotus

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