Quotes
Quotes about Rest
Out of the book of Natur's learned brest.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
I 'm growing old, I'm sixty years;
I 've labored all my life in vain.
In all that time of hopes and fears,
I 've failed my dearest wish to gain.
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none
My prayer would else fulfilment know--
Never have I seen Carcassonne!
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.
The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.
Rest and be thankful.
Doct. She's sick, my lord,
As she's is troubled with thick-coming fancies,
That keep her from her rest.
Macb. Cure her of that.
"Arms, and the man I sing, who forc'ed by Fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting Hate; Expell'ed and exil'd, left the Trojan Shoar: Long Labours, both by Sea and Land he bore; And in the doubtful War, before he won, the Latian realm, and built the destin'd Town: His banish'd gods restor'd to Rites Divine, and setl'd sure Succession in his line: From Whence the Race of Alban Fathers come, and the long Glories of Majestick Rome."
The establishment rejected him. And it was because heâd had the guts to fight and get gassed, while the rest of the bastards stayed at home.
Clean up, clear up, try to restore scholarly order, meaning tolerated disorder
God was good on the physical and emotional sides and a great one for hate. He generously spilled his own hate into his dearest creation.
But the real age, as we are always being told, is an effect of the mind. It is manifested chiefly in lack of interest in life
It is not enough for a novelist to fabricate a human soul; there must be a body as well, an an immediate space-time continuum for that body to rest or move in
It is not enough for a novelist to fabricate a human soul; there must be a body as well, and an immediate space-time continuum for that body to rest or move in
Nobody ought to think that he is worth writing about. This is especially true of professional writers. They are not remarkable people, and if they are novelists they are particularly lacking in interest.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Between man and man at the last there rests at least shame
In either fire or ocean only rest lay. When the point of light could grow and renew the known globe of air
