Quotes
Quotes about Rest
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test. The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth, In all me time (the stage's prime!) and The Other One was Booth.
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they areâchaff and grain togetherâcertain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest awayâ¦.
Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.
