Rest Quotes

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Life, Great, Person

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Happy, Why, Put

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

Friendship, Happiness, Sex

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Earl Nightingale

Time, Deep, Thinking

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.
Andre Gide

Work, Good, Greatest

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James

Work, Art, Passion

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

Education, Power, Freedom

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Life, Live, Jealous

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

Mind, Real, Elegance

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
Moliere

Truth, Friend, Tell

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Virgil

Confidence, Find, Cannot

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
Boris Johnson

Play, Between, Difference

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

Courage, Character, Seem

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
Chief Joseph

Father, Eyes, Sharper

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
Mason Cooley

Hate, Abject, Beggars

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
Mason Cooley

Thinking, Universe, Read

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
William Feather

Yourself, Problems, Here

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
Hugo Chavez

Live, Human, Humanity

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence J. Peter

Two, Kinds, Admit

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
Dorothy L. Sayers

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Joseph Joubert

God, Remember, Place

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams

Writing, Working, Alive

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

Work, Boredom, Finds

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Brain, Put, Away

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
Carl Lewis

Life, Best, Sports

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.
Chris Rock

Career, Find, Themselves

I did my best, and God did the rest.
Hattie McDaniel

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

Friend, Real, Walks

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
Lawrence Kasdan

Life, Night, Writer

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Ovid

Beautiful, Crop, Field

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