All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
George Henry Lewes

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
George Henry Lewes

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques Danton

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Christopher Lasch

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
Frank B. Kellogg

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Dean Koontz

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Elizabeth Drew

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno

During the rests - pray.
Eugene Ormandy

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
Christopher Dawson

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Robert Browning Hamilton

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
Caspar Weinberger

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
George H. Mead

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
Ralph Richardson

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
Georg Simmel

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T. E. Lawrence