I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose. — James Aldrich Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass… — Ovid Copy Share Image
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose),… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image