Repose Quotes · Page 3

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

— Loretta Young

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

— Michel de Montaigne

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

— Wes Craven

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

— Indira Gandhi

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

— Philip Sidney

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

— Jose Marti

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

— Denise Levertov

“Sink to the ground holding death's hand oh comrade if you are the father of great repose, if you are all you…

— Sun Ra

“He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to…

— William Shakespeare

A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the…

— Walter J. Phillips

The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and…

— Gaston Bachelard

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even…

— Saint Francis de Sales

… the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the…

— David Livingstone

Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm…

— Jean-Paul Marat

The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now…

— James F. Cooper

Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power,…

— Hadewijch

“For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a…

— George MacDonald

From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve…

— Pope Pius XI

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly…

— Michel de Montaigne

If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him…

— Nicholas of Cusa

I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her…

— August Wilson

It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes: you've got to dig from week to week - to…

— Anonymous

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

— Jules Michelet

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

— Nelly Mazloum

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.”

— Rumi

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

— John Henry Newman

“God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

— Robert Smithson

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

— Michel de Montaigne